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The consequences of endogenizing information for herd behavior

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003

In models of sequential decision making herd behaviour occurs if the signals smart(dumb) agents receive are (un)correlated and if agents have reputational concerns. We show thatintroducing costly effort to become informed about project payoffs (i) eliminates herdbehaviour and (ii) shifts...

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Committees as active audiences : reputation concerns and information

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2018

payoffs and about his reputation for expertise. The state remains unobserved, even after the decision has been taken. In such … inconclusive environments, in equilibrium, a member's internal (peer) reputation is based on deliberation patterns, while member …'s external (market) reputation is based on the observed group decision. Either form of reputation concerns create strategic …

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Committees of experts in the lab

Renes, Sander; Visser, Bauke - 2018

assessments. We investigate this theory in the lab, using treatments with and without reputation concerns and with and without … their assessments less dependent on actual decisions and statements. With or without reputation concerns, for the majority …

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Vanity in politics : a problem?

Suurmond, Guido; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2002

Can vanity do any good? It may seem obvious to answer this question in the negative, as economists have shown how reputational concerns lead agents e.g. to ignore valuable information, to herd, and to become overly risk averse. We explore how proud agents may be a social blessing. An agent may...

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On committees of experts

Visser, Bauke; Swank, Otto H. - 2005

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Vanity in politics : a problem?

Suurmond, Guido; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2002

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On committees of experts

Visser, Bauke; Swank, Otto H. - 2005

A committee makes a decision on a project on behalf of the public. Members of the committee agree on the a priori value of the project, and hold additional private information about its consequences. They are experts who care about the value of the project and about being considered well...

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Network industries, economic stability and spatial integration

Button, Kenneth; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997

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Modelling in distributed telecommunications networks

Tomasgard, Asgeir; Dye, Shane; Wallace, Stein W.; … - 1997

The purpose of this paper is to formally describe new optimization models for distributed telecommunication networks.Modern distributed networks put more focus on the processing of information and less on the actual transportation of datathan we are traditionally used to in telecommunications....

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