Why votes have value: instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2013.12.004MaRDI QIDQ2442822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ingolf Dittmann, Dorothea Kübler, Ernst Maug, Lydia Mechtenberg

Publication date 1 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2013.12.004

zbMATH Keywords

cognitive biasesexperimental economicsoverconfidencepivotalityvoting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90) Voting theory (91B12)

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