Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence
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Keywords
experiments; committee search; plurality voting rules;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- 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-2017-05-28 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2017-05-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-POL-2017-05-28 (Positive Political Economics)
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