Collaborative Research: Experimental Studies of Strategic Decision Making by Groups and Individuals

协作研究：团体和个人战略决策的实验研究

• 批准号: 1226460
• 负责人: John Kagel
• 金额: $ 21.34万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226460&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Experimental; Studies; Strategic

This award funds research on strategic decision making by groups and individuals in a number of economically important settings: multilateral bargaining, markets with a small number of powerful firms, and markets with asymmetric information (one side of the market has better information than the other side of the market). The common theme underlying these three lines of inquiry is the use of two person teams participating in laboratory experiments designed to mimic the environments in question. The goal is to better understand decision making processes in these environments. Because teammates must talk to coordinate their team's decisions, using teams provides a real time accounting of agents' thought processes as they make decisions. The resulting dialogues can be used to sort out between competing explanations for the observed behavior. In short, the goal is to develop realistic models of agents thought processes and behavior in the target environments. A second, important, motivation for the research is that many, if not most, decisions made in these environments involve team decision making of one sort or another (freely interacting teams or advisors and advisees interacting). A common claim is that for economic environments like those we study, teams learn to behave strategically much faster, and in a number of ways more rationally, than individuals. The research studies if this claim is valid and, if so, how team play improves rationality. The PIs also study whether the heightened 'rationality' of teams extends to new domains beyond those previously studied by the PIs and by other research teams. While it is well known that cognitive ability plays an important role in economic success there is growing recognition of the importance of key personality characteristics on economic outcomes as well. The role of cognitive ability and personality characteristic on the outcomes reported will be studied as well, with particular emphasis on how the characteristics of individual team members combine to affect team performance.The research has several broader impacts. Graduate students will participate in the project and will learn about research methods for lab experiments in economics. Another impact of the research is to demonstrate the utility of using team dialogues and information about agents' personal characteristics to better understand decision makers' behavior in strategic environments. Because many kinds of social science include the study of human behavior in strategic environments, the project will be valuable to an interdisciplinary research community. The research is of considerable practical importance as well given that many major decisions are made by teams as opposed to individuals. As such to the extent that teams behave differently from individuals this is important to know.

该奖项资助群体和个人在一些重要的经济环境中进行战略决策的研究：多边谈判，少数强大公司的市场，以及信息不对称的市场（市场的一方比另一方拥有更好的信息）。这三条调查线的共同主题是使用两个人的团队参与实验室实验，旨在模拟所讨论的环境。 我们的目标是更好地了解这些环境中的决策过程。 因为队友必须通过对话来协调他们团队的决策，所以使用团队提供了代理在决策时思维过程的真实的时间会计。 由此产生的对话可以用来在对观察到的行为的相互竞争的解释之间进行分类。 简而言之，目标是在目标环境中开发代理思维过程和行为的现实模型。 研究的第二个重要动机是，在这些环境中做出的许多（如果不是大多数的话）决策都涉及这样或那样的团队决策（自由互动的团队或顾问和被访者互动）。 一个普遍的说法是，在我们所研究的经济环境中，团队比个人更快地学会战略行为，在许多方面也更理性。这项研究研究了这种说法是否有效，如果是的话，团队合作如何提高理性。 PI还研究团队的高度“理性”是否延伸到新的领域，超出了PI和其他研究团队以前研究的领域。 虽然众所周知，认知能力在经济成功中起着重要作用，但人们越来越认识到关键人格特征对经济成果的重要性。 认知能力和个性特征对报告结果的作用也将被研究，特别强调团队成员个体的特征如何结合联合收割机来影响团队绩效。 研究生将参与该项目，并将学习经济学实验室实验的研究方法。 该研究的另一个影响是展示了使用团队对话和代理人个人特征信息来更好地理解决策者在战略环境中的行为的实用性。由于许多社会科学都包括对战略环境中人类行为的研究，因此该项目对跨学科研究社区很有价值。 这项研究具有相当大的实际意义，因为许多重大决策是由团队而不是个人做出的。 因此，在某种程度上，团队的行为不同于个人，这一点很重要。