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Board directors’ preferences – What are good aggregation rules?

Duran, Mihael - In: Finance Research Letters 11 (2014) 2, pp. 84-90

I analyze how boards of directors with heterogeneous preferences can affect the information shared with the CEO with the help of a cheap-talk model that allows for large groups of receivers. This paper provides new insights on how heterogeneity of boards can change the way of communication...

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Some Ethical Issues for Accountants in Antidumping Trade Cases: An Examination of Recent Case Studies With Emphasis on Latin America

McGee, Robert W. - EconWPA - 1998

A search of the accounting, trade and ethics literature failed to find a single article that discussed the role that accountants play in assisting in the data gathering process of a trade investigation. Yet there are serious ethical issues that need to be addressed. Certain aspects of trade...

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Memetics & Voting: How Nature May Make us Public Spirited

Conley, John P.; Wooders, Myrna - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2005

plausible explanation seems to be that agents receive a warm glow from the act of voting itself.ÊÊ However, this begs the …-spiritedness is disadvantageous. The details depend on the costs of voting, the extent to which different types of citizens agree or …

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On the Extent of Strategic Voting

Spenkuch, Jörg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

made it very difficult to document strategic behavior empirically. Exploiting the incentive structure of Germany's voting … system to solve the fundamental identification problem, this paper estimates the extent of strategic voting in large, real … contention for victory. As predicted by theory, tactical behavior has a non-trivial impact on individual races. Yet, as one …

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Condorcet's principle and the strong no-show paradoxes

Duddy, Conal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

candidates and when voters may express indifference, every voting rule satisfying Condorcet's principle must generate both of …

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National Interference in Local Public Good Provision

Dur, Robert; Staal, Klaas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...

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Please don’t vote for me: strategic voting in a natural experiment with perverse incentives

Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

, this paper documents patterns of strategic voting in a large, real world election. During the 2005 elections to the …

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Strategy-proof social choice

Barberà, Salvador - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...

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Voting by Committees under Constraints

Barberà, Salvador; Massó, Jordi; Neme, Alejandro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2001

characterize the families of strategy-proof voting procedures when not all possible subsets of objects are feasible, and voters …

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POWER INDICES AND THE MEASUREMENT OF CONTROL IN CORPORATE STRUCTURES

CRAMA, YVES; LERUTH, LUC - In: International Game Theory Review (IGTR) 15 (2013) 03, pp. 1340017-1

This paper proposes a brief review of the use of power indices in the corporate governance literature. Without losing sight of the field of application, it places the emphasis on the game-theoretic aspects of this research and on the issues that arise in this framework. It should be noted that...

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