On the failure of hindsight-biased principals to delegate optimally

Management Science

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1938-1958

  Danz, David ^a   Köbler, Dorothea ^b   Mechtenberg, Lydia ^c   Schmid, Julia ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delegation; Experiments; Hindsight Bias

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

DELEGATION; FIFA WORLD CUP 2010; HINDSIGHT BIAS; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; SIMPLE MODELING; WORLD CUP;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84937475163     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2087     Document Type: Article

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