We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision … intuitive as employees. At the same time entrepreneurs have response times and a subjective Need for Cognition that (on average … cognition, and thus take more time to think things over. …

We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision … intuitive as employees. At the same time entrepreneurs have response times and a subjective Need for Cognition that (on average … cognition, and thus take more time to think things over …

testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are … endorser's bias is nonmonotonic; i.e., ex ante, a candidate's winning probability will first increase and then decrease as the … endorser becomes more biased towards her. Voter turnout is much less responsive to the bias than predicted. We argue that …

In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects' willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right … likelihood of receiving her preferred task if she rather than another participant makes the decision. Participants pay more to …

rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …

IFC as the debt bias would shrink. However, when other considerations eclipse competence and give the incumbent a strong … electoral advantage or disadvantage, setting up an IFC may be counterproductive as the debt bias would increase. If the … bias if voters care sufficiently about policymakers' competence; (ii) not all political environments are conducive to the …

election outcome and voter turnout. We apply our framework to study the influence of the endorser's bias and the entry of new … endorsers on the extent of electoral manipulation. With a single endorser, a rise in bias affects the election outcome in a non …