The inﬂuence of group decision making on search behavior

dc.contributor	Graduate Program in Economics.
dc.contributor.advisor	Gürdal, Mehmet Yiğit.
dc.contributor.author	Destan, Cavit Görkem.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-16T12:00:07Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-16T12:00:07Z
dc.date.issued	2017.
dc.identifier.other	EC 2017 D47
dc.identifier.uri	http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16297
dc.description.abstract	We study a multi-agent search problem within an experimental framework. Two agents search separately with their own search costs for a reward that is common for both which can create a free-rider problem. In general, we found that behavior of the agents are consistent with the predictions of the theory. Even though the results slightly moved away from the optimal compared to individual search problem, in group search problem strategies of subjects are still substantially close to the best-response. Moreover, we controlled for the personality traits, gender, risk attitude and background in economics. However, we did not ﬁnd any signiﬁcant effect of these on optimal decision rate or free-ride.
dc.format.extent	30 cm.
dc.publisher	Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017.
dc.subject.lcsh	Group decision making.
dc.title	The inﬂuence of group decision making on search behavior
dc.format.pages	ix, 34 leaves ;