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While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …
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We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about … decision is made. The reason for this result is that communicationmay aggravate the free-rider problem associated with …
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heterogeneity of committee members, this voting rule is suboptimal in terms of the quality of the interest rate decision, but …
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This paper studies intertemporal social preferences. We introduce intertemporal dictator and ultimatum games where players decide on the timing of monetary payoffs. The setting is twodimensional rather than one-dimensional, in the sense that inequalities can arise in the time as well as in the...
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We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...
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We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and … decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … lower than all possible payoffs of the decision maker. In the neutral context social referent and decision maker will always …
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implemented. Fama and Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …
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