Common value elections with private information and informative priors: theory and experiments

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2017.03.009MaRDI QIDQ2013342zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friederike Mengel, Javier Rivas

Publication date 17 August 2017

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://opus.bath.ac.uk/55057/1/Common_value_elections_with_private_information_and_informative_priors.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

common value electionsCondorcet jury theoremprivate informationswing voter's cursevoter turnout

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12)

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• Stress-testing the runoff rule in the laboratory
• Voting in three-alternative committees: an experiment
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• Costly information acquisition. Is it better to toss a coin?
• Aggregating information by voting: the wisdom of the experts versus the wisdom of the masses
• Unanimous rules in the laboratory
• A unified analysis of rational voting with private values and group-specific costs
• Conservativeness in jury decision-making
• The fragility of information aggregation in large elections

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