Budgetary constraints force organizations to pursue only a subset of possible innovation
projects. Identifying which subset is most promising is an error-prone exercise, and involving …

In the third decade of the 21st century, digitization and artificial intelligence, global events,
challenges from authoritarian states, and difficulties of particular democracies to function …

This paper introduces a new storable vote mechanism (Storable Votes-Pay as you win, SV-
PAYW) where a fixed number of votes is cast among different alternatives, and the votes …

Policymaking is a fraught process: politicians often fail to change the status quo despite their
best efforts. Influential players, eg interest groups, bureaucrats or legislators, can make …

Consider the following collective choice problem: a group of budget constrained agents
must choose one of several alternatives. Is there a budget balanced mechanism that: i) does …

We study a standard real-option problem in which sequential decisions are made through
voting by a group of members with heterogeneous beliefs. We show that, when facing both …

We study pre-vote interactions in a committee that enacts a welfare-improving reform
through voting. Committee members use decentralized promises contingent on the reform …

In the third decade of the 21st century, digitization, global events, challenges from
authoritarian states, and difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront …

We consider a committee facing binary decisions on a number of proposals. If members vote
sincerely and payoffs are symmetric in expectation, it can be shown that the simple majority …

The expression" cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for
office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of …