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Voting power and survival : the case of a ruling party
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019199
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548053
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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Committee decision-making under the threat of leaks
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hahn, Volker - 2020
the probabilities of project implementation as well as welfare (despite differences in individual voting behavior). Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295187
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021
Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415076
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Voting in hiring committees : which "almost" rule is optimal?
Baharad, Eyal; Danziger, Leif - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795205
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Symmetric and asymmetric committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309640
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Search by committee
Albrecht, James W. (contributor); Anderson, Axel (contributor) - 2007
intermediate levels of patience, this comparison may be reversed. Holding the fraction of votes required to stop fixed, expected … that unanimity is welfare maximizing. -- Sequential search ; voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571668
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Space, search and efficiency
Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000
We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the labor market in which workers? location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the value of job search and employment. We first show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336862
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...
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