On the Optimal Composition of Committees
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- Ruth Ben-Yashar & Leif Danziger, 2014. "On the optimal composition of committees," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 43(4), pages 973-980, December.
- Ruth Ben-Yashar & Leif Danziger, 2014. "On the Optimal Composition of Committees," CESifo Working Paper Series 4685, CESifo.
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Keywords
optimal composition of committees; simple majority rule;JEL classification:
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2014-03-01 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-MIC-2014-03-01 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-NET-2014-03-01 (Network Economics)
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