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Deliberation, disclosure of information, and voting
Jackson, Matthew O.; Tan, Xu - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 1, pp. 2-30
A set of voters consults experts before voting over two alternatives. Experts observe private signals about the values … of the alternatives and can reveal their information or conceal it, but cannot lie. We examine how disclosure and voting … vary with preference biases, signal precision, and the voting rule. Unanimity rule can lead to greater information …
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Reshaping the schooling system: The role of immigration
Dottori, Davide; Estevan, Fernanda; Shen, I-Ling - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 5, pp. 2124-2149
This paper studies how the schooling system may be impacted by the number and skill type of immigrants. When the number of low-skilled immigrants is large, the education regime tends to become segregated. Wealthy locals are more likely to choose private schools and vote for a lower tax rate to...
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Altruism and voting: A large-turnout result that does not rely on civic duty or cooperative behavior
Evren, Özgür - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 6, pp. 2124-2157
I propose a game-theoretic model of costly voting that predicts significant turnout rates even when the electorate is … vote or not, an altruistic agent compares her private voting cost with the expected contribution of her vote to the welfare …
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The Condorcet Jur(ies) Theorem
Ahn, David S.; Oliveros, Santiago - In: Journal of Economic Theory 150 (2014) C, pp. 841-851
Should two issues be decided jointly by a single committee or in separately by different committees? Similarly, should two defendants be tried together in a joint trial or tried separately in severed trials? Multiplicity of issues or defendants introduces novel strategic considerations. As in...
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Dynamic legislative policy making
Duggan, John; Kalandrakis, Tasos - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 5, pp. 1653-1688
proposer and voting rule are determined by play of a finite, perfect information game. …
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Abstention, ideology and information acquisition
Oliveros, Santiago - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 3, pp. 871-902
information and preferences that vary both in terms of ideology and intensity. In contrast to all other models of voting with …
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Community standards
Miller, Alan D. - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 6, pp. 2696-2705
I introduce a model of community standards relevant to the judicial determination of obscenity. Standards are defined as subjective judgments restricted only by a simple reasonableness condition. Individual standards are aggregated to form the community standard. Several axioms reflect legal...
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Strategic stability in Poisson games
De Sinopoli, Francesco; Meroni, Claudia; Pimienta, Carlos - In: Journal of Economic Theory 153 (2014) C, pp. 46-63
In Poisson games, an extension of perfect equilibrium based on perturbations of the strategy space does not guarantee that players use admissible actions. This observation suggests that such a class of perturbations is not the correct one. We characterize the right space of perturbations to...
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Multidimensional mechanism design in single peaked type spaces
Mishra, Debasis; Pramanik, Anup; Roy, Souvik - In: Journal of Economic Theory 153 (2014) C, pp. 103-116
We consider implementation of a deterministic allocation rule using transfers in quasi-linear private values environments. We show that in multidimensional single peaked type spaces, an allocation rule is implementable if and only if it satisfies a familiar and simple condition called 2-cycle...
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Minimum cost connection networks: Truth-telling and implementation
Hougaard, Jens Leth; Tvede, Mich - In: Journal of Economic Theory 157 (2015) C, pp. 76-99
In the present paper we consider the allocation of costs in connection networks. Agents have connection demands in form of pairs of locations they want to have connected. Connections between locations are costly to build. The problem is to allocate costs of networks satisfying all connection...
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