'I'll do it by myself as I knew it all along': On the failure of hindsight-biased principals to delegate optimally
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Keywords
hindsight bias; delegation; experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2013-04-13 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-04-13 (Experimental Economics)
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