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between decision rules inspired by ranking-based utilitarianism and the majority rule. …
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We investigate how individuals think groups should aggregate members’ ordinal preferences -that is, how they interpret “the will of the people.” In an experiment, we elicit revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classify subjects according to the rules they apparently...
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an …
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we …
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these models and argue that preferences of a decision maker should be represented by a sequence of utility functions. This …
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …
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A small committee has to approve/reject a project with uncertain return. Members have different preferences: some are value-maximizers, others are biased towards approval. We focus on the efficient use of scarce information when communication is not guaranteed, and we provide insights on the...
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; we find that groups grant more autonomy to others than individuals. This finding is robust across two decision contexts …, one involving individual decision-making (Internality) and one involving social decision-making (Externality). Analyses of … individual and social contexts, and that transferring decision-making power to groups can lead to a “liberal shift”. …
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We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, and that the Borda rule is hardly ever optimal. Furthermore, we show that only the almostplurality,...
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