We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about … decision is made. The reason for this result is that communicationmay aggravate the free-rider problem associated with …

Existing theoretical and experimental studies have established that unanimity is a poor decision rule for promoting … responsibility for the committee's decision is equally distributed across all agents. We test our predictions in a controlled … are ultimately more likely to make the optimal decision. Idiosyncratic payoffs such as a moral bias thus present a …

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection. Agents collect information about … that a correct decision is made. The reason for this result is that communication may aggravate the free-rider problem …