Essays on voting, cheap talk and information transmission

The first part of the thesis studies the voting behaviour of careerist experts in a secret committee where voting profiles get `leaked' to the public with a given probability. For informative voting (where every expert votes according to his posterior probability) in equilibrium, the committee...

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Main Author: Ghosh, Saptarshi Prosonno
Published: University of Birmingham 2013
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569722