The standard epistemic justification for inclusiveness in political decision making is the Condorcet Jury Theorem, which states that the probability of a correct decision using majority rule increases in group size (given certain assumptions). Informally, majority rule acts as a mechanism to pool the information contained in the judgements of individual agents. I aim to extend the explanation o...

I introduce a model of corporate voting. I characterize the shareholder majority rule as the unique corporate voting rule that satisfies four axioms: anonymity, neutrality, share monotonicity, and merger, a property that requires consistency in election outcomes following stock-for-stock mergers. JEL classification: D71, D72, K22

This study aims to examine whether family control has a positive effect on earnings management of manufacturing companies and leverage weakens the management. uses panel data for 2015–2019 observation year. The research population consists listed Indonesian capital market. Sample selection was performed with purposive sampling approach using certain criteria, namely: company not delisted during...

The majority of those who drink excessive amounts of alcohol do not develop pancreatic disease. One overarching hypothesis is that alcohol abuse requires additional risk factors, either environmental or genetic, for disease to occur. However, another reason be a result of alcohol-induced activation of adaptive systems that protect the pancreas from the toxic effects of alcohol. We show that mec...

We argue the necessity of universally veriiable secret sharing for secrets as individual users' cryptographic keys, and propose protocols to realize such secret sharing for two most common public-key cryptosystems: discrete logarithm based and integer factorization based. The universal veriiabil-ity achieves sharing secret with multi third parties as shareholders using two-party protocols in wh...

The article focuses on definitions of and beliefs about wife abuse among undergraduate social work students in Israel. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires. The vast majority of students in Study 1 acknowledged acts thought to constitute wife assault and disapproved of a husband's use of force against his wife. The majority of students in Study 2 did not justify wife abu...