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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418242
, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029172
The recent literature on individual vs. group decisions over risk has brought about divergent results, mainly depending on the institutional rules through which groups take decisions. While some studies where group decisions relied on the majority rule showed no appreciable difference between...
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Economic small group research points to groups as more rational decision-makers in numerous economic situations … economic contexts dominated by group decision-making might be questioned. We consider the case of anchoring as a prime example … for predominantly intellective tasks, yet fails to improve decision-making when judgmental aspects are involved. …
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Economic small group research points to groups as more rational decision-makers in numerous economic situations … economic contexts dominated by group decision-making might be questioned. We consider the case of anchoring as a prime example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525580
We report results from a laboratory experiment that explores the effects of preference communication and leader … selection mechanisms in group decision-making. In a setting where all members of a group get the same payoff based on the group … leader's decision of how much risk to take, we study the effects of two treatment variables: (1) whether group members can …
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In this paper, we first replicated Harrison et al. (2012). Then, we studied if the group's size has an impact on group's risk aversion. In line with Harrison et al. (2012), our results confirm that no significant differences occur between individuals and groups risk aversion in three-person...
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"the will of the people." In an experiment, we elicit revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classify …
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