Rational benevolence in small committees
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Rational Benevolence in Small Committees
Norway 2 Preliminary. Please do not quote. Acknowledgement: We would like to thank participants at the WZB workshop " Advances in Auction Theory " for helpful discussions. All errors are our own. Abstract We consider a pie-splitting game involving three committee members. In response to the large literature on sequential procedures in this type of game, we propose an institution that is inspire...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Choice
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0048-5829,1573-7101
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-007-9210-9