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patterns of neural activity in different voting situations. We conduct an fMRI-experiment which investigates neural activation …
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We introduce the notion of verifiable information into a model of sequential debate among experts who are motivated by career concerns. We show that self-censorship may hamper the efficiency of information aggregation, as experts withhold evidence contradicting the conventional wisdom. In this...
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This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule …. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in the spirit of Condorcet, a symmetric composition of committees is not always … committees. However, in the special case of only two skill levels, it is optimal to compose the committees evenly. …
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This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...
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The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...
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an experiment, we identify the effect of varying individual responsibility for the moral choices of an artificially …'s decisions on the algorithm. Diffusing such individual pivotality for algorithmic choices increased the share of selfish …
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This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...
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money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment … subject opts for killing. The fraction of subjects deciding to kill is higher when pivotality is diffused. The likelihood of … killing is monotone in subjective perceptions of pivotality. On an aggregate level many more mice are killed in Diffused-Pivotality …
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money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment … subject opts for killing. The fraction of subjects deciding to kill is higher when pivotality is diffused. The likelihood of … killing is monotone in subjective perceptions of pivotality. On an aggregate level many more mice are killed in Diffused-Pivotality …
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money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment … subject opts for killing. The fraction of subjects deciding to kill is higher when pivotality is diffused. The likelihood of … killing is monotone in subjective perceptions of pivotality. On an aggregate level many more mice are killed in Diffused-Pivotality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319464