search duration rises with committee size on patient committees but falls with committee size on impatient committees …

monetary policy committees (MPCs). In addition, the committee-based ECB replaced 12 central banks, most of which had previously …

analyze the voting behavior of members who take into account the effect of their votes not only on the chosen alternative, but …

analyze the voting behavior of members who take into account the effect of their votes not only on the chosen alternative, but …

but novel voting scheme for binary decisions taken by committees that meet regularly over time. At each meeting, committee …

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 …