Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55339 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3701
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic behavior of groups and individuals in many games: prisoner's dilemma, dictator, ultimatum, trust, centipede and principal-agent games, among others. Our review suggests that results are quite consistent in revealing that groups behave closer to the game-theoretical assumption of rationality and selfishness than individuals. We conclude by discussing future research avenues in this area.
Subjects: 
group decision making
interactive decision making
rationality
discontinuity effect
JEL: 
C91
C92
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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