Casamatta, Georges; Zantman, Wilfried - In: Revue économique 53 (2002) 3, pp. 537-544
This article proposes an extension in an asymmetric information framework of the citizen-candidates model developed by Osborne-Slivinsky [1996]. We show that introducing asymmetric information on the tastes of the agents tends to minor the prevalence of median candidates. We also show that this...