Information efficiency and majority decisions

DOI10.1007/BF00186280MaRDI QIDQ1908526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Gersbach

Publication date 2 September 1996

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00186280

zbMATH Keywords

characterization of equilibriaprivate information acquisitiontwo-stage voting game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Multistage and repeated games (91A20) Voting theory (91B12)

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