Communication, consensus and order. Who wants to speak first?
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Who wants to speak first ? Endogenous debate design with career concerns . ∗
We model a committee made up of informed experts whose members have to reach an agreement on a particular decision. They reach an agreement in debating, following a protocol that determines the order of speech in the debate and the type of messages debaters are allowed to send. We consider that members of the committee have career concerns, namely that their payoff depends both on the decision ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Theory
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-0531
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2007.09.013