Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
decision-making committees. The focus is on many three-member committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. We find … that the allocation of experts to committees is optimal if and only if it minimizes the sum of the products of the experts …' skills in each committee. As a result, given the experts of any two committees, the product of the experts' skills should be …