of the project and about being considered well informed. Before voting on the project, members can exchange their private … committees to show a united front. These results hold irrespective of whether information can be manipulated or not. Also … those of the member casting the decisive vote. Our last result is that the optimal voting rule balances the quality of …

Some committees are made up of experts, persons interested in both the (subject) matter at hand and in coming across as … able decision-makers. Such committees would like to conceal disagreement from the public. We present a theory that …

Theory predicts that committees of experts may take decisions that look good but are bad and that they show a united … front to impress evaluators. Although evaluators see through this behavior, committees persist in it only to avoid worse … of committees, words speak louder than costly decisions. Evaluators pick this up. Orthogonality tests show that …

Most monetary policy committees decide on interest rates using a simple majority voting rule. Given the inherent … heterogeneity of committee members, this voting rule is suboptimal in terms of the quality of the interest rate decision, but … majority voting rule. …

This paper is concerned with the role of committees in collective decision-makingprocesses in a world where agents must … be motivated to collect information. Committees improvethe quality of decision-making by providing information and by …

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …