Voting power methodology offers insights to understand coalition building in collective decision making. Using …. This voting power index is still widely used today in applications to international politics. Yet, it assumes that voters … are symmetric and focuses on particular voters only. This paper proposes a new measure of voting power which account for …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled …) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper …

How large should a monetary policy committee be? Which voting rule should a monetary policy committee adopt? This paper … builds on Condorcet's jury threorem to analyse the relationships between committee size and voting rules in a model where … policy discussions are subject to a time constraint. It suggests that in large committees majority voting is likely to …

This paper shows that a simple two-stage voting mechanism may implement a constrained optimal state dependent decision …