committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters …Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This …

the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication … in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental evidence on these issues. Our analysis focuses on the optimal size …, composition, and decision rules of committees. We discuss implications for the design of monetary policy committees. …