Committees and status quo bias: structural evidence from a randomized field experiment

When members of a committee have incentives to agree with each other, they over-weight public information: this can generate status quo bias. We test this hypothesis using a novel field experiment - a large debate tournament with random assignment of judges to committees. To analyse our experimen...

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Main Authors: Quinn, S, Gole, T
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2014