We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them … individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information … aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit from being informed is larger in case the experts are consulted individually …

paper investigates how these findings translate to experts' decision making and information acquisition in the field. In a …Laboratory experiments find a robust relationship between decision times and perceived values of alternatives. This … be chosen later than earlier; (ii) decision time is higher when the likelihood of choosing each alternative is closer to …

Complex and important policy decisions are often made with advice from a committee of experts, where experts first … convene and discuss, before finalizing their collective decision with a vote. We show that the voting structure (whether the … experts vote sequentially or simultaneously) plays a fundamental role in the nature of discussions, the independence of votes …

Actors in various settings have been increasingly relying on algorithmic tools to support their decision-making. Much … - decision-makers cannot verify the quality of such goods, even after "consuming" them. Based on this finding, we test two … algorithm, it remarkably decreases human decision-making performance. In the second treatment, we reveal the task's correct …