Power indices and the veil of ignorance

International Journal of Game Theory

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 331-339

  Laruelle, Annick ^a   Valenciano, Federico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collective decision making; Expected utility; Lotteries; Power indices; Simple games

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037832560     PISSN: 00207276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001820200121     Document Type: Article

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