committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This … is not the case in a closed committee where costs and benefits of insincere voting only arise when a voter is pivotal. …

The objective of this study is twofold: first analyze how the implementation of the EU minimum energy tax policy in the … climate policy in the enlarged EU. The main elements of the new EU energy tax policy is an upward revision of the existing … minimum tax rates on mineral oils and an inclusion of the energy products such as coal, natural gas and electricity in the tax …