Let Them Burn Money: Making Elections More Informative
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Keywords
Elections; Voting Mechanisms; Interdependent Values; Information Aggregation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2006-01-24 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2006-01-24 (Positive Political Economics)
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