Costly Voting in Weighted Committees: The case of moral costs
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- Maaser, Nicola & Stratmann, Thomas, 2024. "Costly voting in weighted committees: The case of moral costs," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
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Keywords
Moral decision-making; Committees; Decision rules; Deception; Institutions; Threshold public good games; Laboratory experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2021-09-27 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2021-09-27 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ISF-2021-09-27 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-ORE-2021-09-27 (Operations Research)
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