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 …

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 …

We report on an experiment that tests for the effects of democratic versus hierarchical rules for joint decision making … decision, which we call the attention responsibility effect …

externalities. Samuelson (1954) laid out the conditions for optimal pure public goods provision, but noted that free-riding (the …, government intervention is unnecessary. Under the conditions underlying the Coase Theorem, externalities would be self … to the controversy here by describing a previously unexplored relationship between externalities, public goods, and …

process has an high probability to reach a final decision. We also better qualify the degree of manipulability of such a final … decision, showing that it is independent not only from the agenda, but also from the initial condition. Therefore we show that …

quantity of resources. Afterwards, one of the proposals is chosen by majority decision. If no proposal obtains a majority, a …

measure religious organizations power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters commitment to …