The Swing Voter's Curse

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 408-424

  Feddersen, Timothy J ^a   Pesendorfer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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