Economic Growth: Shared Beliefs, Shared Disappointments?

On the origin of shared beliefs (and corporate culture)

Since organizational homogeneity may reduce or eliminate agency problems, understanding its sources is important for organization design and for the trade-off between firms and markets. This paper shows that organizational homogeneity will develop because, first, people prefer to hire others with similar beliefs since such others will make the ‘right’ decisions, and, second, these employees sub...

Cooperation and Shared Beliefs about Trust in the Assurance Game

Determinants of cooperation include ingroup vs. outgroup membership, and individual traits, such as prosociality and trust. We investigated whether these factors can be overridden by beliefs about people's trust. We manipulated the information players received about each other's level of general trust, "high" or "low". These levels were either measured (Experiment 1) or just arbitrarily assigne...

Strategic manipulability without resoluteness or shared beliefs: Gibbard-Satterthwaite generalized

The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem on the manipulability of socialchoice rules assumes resoluteness: there are no ties, no multi-member choice sets. Generalizations based on a familiar lottery idea allow ties but assume perfectly shared probabilistic beliefs about their resolution. We prove a more straightforward generalization that assumes almost no limit on ties or beliefs about them.

A case of Shared Psychotic Disorder with Deadly Outcome

Shared psychotic disorder also known as folie a dues is thought to occur in persons who live close together, so that delusions of the primarily ill patient are transferred to the partner. A case of shared paranoid psychotic disorder, with primary diagnosis of persecutory delusional disorder in the husband is described. The delusion and its consequent safety behaviors were so strong that led to ...

Multi-Component Efficiency with Shared Resources in Commercial Banks