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Opacity in Bargaining over Public Good Provision

Lamprecht, Julian; Thum, Marcel - 2022

, even with bilateral delegation. The incomplete information created by strategic opacity choices does not lead to … unilateral delegation, bilateral delegation is never worse from a welfare perspective. …

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Delegation and Overhead Aversion with Multiple Threshold Public Goods

Abraham, Diya Elizabeth; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2021

Experimental studies have modeled individual funding of social projects as contributions to a threshold public good. We examine donors’ behavior when they face multiple threshold public goods and the possibility of coordinating their contributions via an intermediary. Employing the...

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Responsibility-Shifting through Delegation: Evidence from China's One-Child Policy

Liu, Yiming; Han, Yi - 2023

We provide evidence on how responsibility-shifting through delegation occurred in China's implementation of the one … responsibility-shifting effect of delegation. …

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Ruled by Robots: Preference for Algorithmic Decision Makers and Perceptions of Their Choices

Chugunova, Marina; Luhan, Wolfgang - 2023

As technology-assisted decision-making is becoming more widespread, it is important to understand how the algorithmic nature of the decisionmaker affects how decisions are perceived by the affected people. We use a laboratory experiment to study the preference for human or algorithmic decision...

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Strategic Responses to Algorithmic Recommendations: Evidence from Hotel Pricing

Garcia, Daniel; Tolvanen, Juha; Wagner, Alexander K. - 2023

We study the interaction between algorithmic advice and human decisions using high-resolution hotel-room pricing data. We document that price setting frictions, arising from adjustment costs of human decision makers, induce a conflict of interest with the algorithmic advisor. A model of advice...

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Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance

Abbott, Kenneth W.; Genschel, Philipp; Snidal, Duncan; … - In: Regulation & Governance 15 (2021), pp. S83-S101

Regulators and other governors rely on intermediaries to set and implement policies and to regulate targets. Existing literatures focus heavily on intermediaries of a single type – Opportunists, motivated solely by self‐interest. But intermediaries can also be motivated by different types of...

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Whats the Damage? Environmental Regulation with Policy-Motivated Bureaucrats

Voß, Achim; Lingens, Jörg - 2014

environmental impact, the bureau is permitted to set its own preferred policy (optimal delegation). …

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Incentives in supply function equilibrium

Vetter, Henrik - 2014

The author analyses delegation in homogenous duopoly under the assumption that the firm-managers compete in supply … the author finds that owners give managers incentives to act in an accommodating way. As a result, optimal delegation …

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Price Delegation in Sales Organizations: An Empirical Investigation

Hansen, Ann-Kristin; Joseph, Kissan; Krafft, Manfred - In: BuR - Business Research 1 (2008) 1, pp. 94-104

The allocation of decision rights is an integral component of designing organizational architecture. Economists have long understood the importance of co-locating decision rights with the knowledge that is valuable to those decisions. Following this prescription, marketing scholars have...

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Centralization versus Delegation in an Experimental Capital Budgeting Setting

Arnold, Markus C.; Gillenkirch, Robert M. - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 10-30

In an experiment, we model two stylized facts about capital budgeting practice, budgetary slack creation and delegation … gives a cost report, and headquarters decides on the project. Under delegation, headquarters allocates a budget to the … a budget moderates the effect of delegation, and we find evidence in favor of our argument as there is an interaction …

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