Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

Warum viele Köche den Brei verderben : Im neuen Buch von Gunter Dueck geht es der Schwarmintelligenz an den Kragen. Die "Schwarmintelligenz" treibt uns geradewegs ins Verderben. Denn statt einer Konzentration an Intelligenz regiert im Schwarm oft das Prinzip: Viele Köche verderben den Brei....

"We develop a model of information exchange through communication and investigate its implications for information aggregation in large societies. An underlying state determines payoffs from different actions. Agents decide which others to form a costly communication link with incurring the...