How do organizational structures influence organizational decision making? This article
reveals organizational structures' dual function: they both (1) aggregate and (2) shape …

When participating in school choice, students often spend substantial effort acquiring
information about schools. We investigate how two popular mechanisms incentivize …

When applying to a university, students and their parents devote considerable time
acquiring information about university programs in order to form preferences. We explore …

Voting games and other collective decision situations pose particular challenges for game
theory. Often, there is a plethora of Nash equilibria, which creates coordination problems …

We report on an experiment comparing compulsory and voluntary voting institutions in a
voting game with common preferences. Rational choice theory predicts sharp differences in …

ABSTRACT Under Liquid Democracy (LD), decisions are taken by referendum, but voters
are allowed to delegate their votes to other voters. Theory shows that in common interest …

We study the effect of transparency of individual votes in committees where members are
heterogeneous in competence and bias, they are career-concerned, and they can abstain …

This paper studies the impact of proxy advisors (PAs) on shareholder decision-making. We
posit two assumptions:(i) the board of directors has a better signal regarding the value …

The efficiency of committee voting and referenda with common-interest issues critically
depends on voter motivation, ie, on voters' willingness to cast an informed vote. If voters are …

Proponents of participatory democracy praise Liquid Democracy: decisions are taken by
referendum, but voters delegate their votes freely. When better informed voters are present …