Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of … information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in large committees. We use this … and unique information aggregation can be achieved with vote-contingent payoffs whose size varies depending on which …

this upward bias results from aggregation along the extensive industry margin, which is why the bias is much smaller and …

We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices …. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic …

desirable policies and aim at manipulating information aggregation by misrepresenting their private information. We show that …

Despite the fact that many aggregates are nonlinear functions and the aggregation weights of many macroeconomic …, time-invariant aggregation weights. In this study a framework for nonlinear contemporaneous aggregation with possibly … theoretical setup and the forecasting results. -- forecasting ; stochastic aggregation ; autoregression ; moving average ; vector …