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Article: Conflicts and common interests in committees

TitleConflicts and common interests in committees
Authors
KeywordsBusiness and economics
Economic situation and conditions business and economics
Economic systems and theories, economic history
Issue Date2001
PublisherAmerican Economic Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/index.php
Citation
American Economic Review, 2001, v. 91 n. 5, p. 1478-1497 How to Cite?
AbstractCommittees improve decisions by pooling members' independent information, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private information when members have conflicting preferences. Committee decision procedures transform continuous data into ordered ranks through voting. This coarsens the transmission of information, but controls strategic manipulations and allows some degree of information sharing. Each member becomes more cautious in casting the crucial vote than when he alone makes the decision based on own information. Increased quality of one member's information results in his casting the crucial vote more often. Committees make better decisions for members than does delegation. (JEL D71, D82, C72).
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/48713
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2023 Impact Factor: 10.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 22.344
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dc.description.abstractCommittees improve decisions by pooling members' independent information, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private information when members have conflicting preferences. Committee decision procedures transform continuous data into ordered ranks through voting. This coarsens the transmission of information, but controls strategic manipulations and allows some degree of information sharing. Each member becomes more cautious in casting the crucial vote than when he alone makes the decision based on own information. Increased quality of one member's information results in his casting the crucial vote more often. Committees make better decisions for members than does delegation. (JEL D71, D82, C72).en_HK
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dc.rightsThe American Economic Review. Copyright © 2001 by American Economic Association.en_HK
dc.subjectBusiness and economicsen_HK
dc.subjectEconomic situation and conditions business and economicsen_HK
dc.subjectEconomic systems and theories, economic historyen_HK
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