Committees as Active Audiences: Reputation Concerns and Information Acquisition
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Keywords
committee decision making; reputation concerns; information acquisition; peers; markets;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2018-09-17 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-MIC-2018-09-17 (Microeconomics)
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