When Do Groups Perform Better than Individuals? A Company Takeover Experiment
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- Marco Casari & Jingjing Zhang & Christine Jackson, 2012. "When do groups perform better than individuals? A company takeover experiment," IEW - Working Papers 504, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.
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JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2011-07-13 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2011-07-13 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2011-07-13 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2011-07-13 (Microeconomics)
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