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Investment Criteria in Single and Multi-member Economic Organizations

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  • Ben-Yashar, Ruth
  • Nitzan, Shmuel

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This paper compares the determination of investment criteria in single- and multi-member organizations. Individual decisional skills are assumed to be endogenous variables that depend on the investment criteria. Our main result specifies the condition that determines the relationship between the investment criteria in single- and multi-member organizations, given the size of the multi-member organization, the decision rule it applies and the function relating the individual's decisional skills to the investment criterion. The implications of our main result are developed for special organizations such as hierarchies and polyarchies. Our analysis implies that the criteria in a multi-member organization may be stricter than the criteria set in a single-member organization, even though in the former case the organization may worsen the average decision-making ability of its members. The analysis can be applied not only in single and multi-member decision making settings, but also in some contexts of centralized and decentralized decisions. This is illustrated in the case of decisions by editors of professional journals regarding the acceptance or rejection of submitted papers. Copyright 2001 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Ben-Yashar, Ruth & Nitzan, Shmuel, 2001. "Investment Criteria in Single and Multi-member Economic Organizations," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 109(1-2), pages 1-13, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:109:y:2001:i:1-2:p:1-13
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    1. Winston Koh, 2005. "The optimal design of fallible organizations: invariance of optimal decision criterion and uniqueness of hierarchy and polyarchy structures," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 25(1), pages 207-220, October.
    2. Eyal Baharad & Ruth Ben-Yashar, 2009. "The robustness of the optimal weighted majority rule to probability distortion," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 139(1), pages 53-59, April.
    3. Min Zhu & Chang Liu & You-Gan Wang, 2017. "A comment on Koh’s “The optimal design of fallible organizations: invariance of optimal decision threshold and uniqueness of hierarchy and polyarchy structures”," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 48(2), pages 385-392, February.
    4. Raphaël Franck & Arye Hillman & Miriam Krausz, 2005. "Public Safety And The Moral Dilemma In The Defense Against Terror," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(5), pages 347-364.

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