Welfare reducing polls

Economic Theory

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-68

  Goeree, Jacob K ^a   Großer, Jens ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated preferences; Costly participation; Polls; Strategic voting; Toss up elections

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846507329     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0082-x     Document Type: Article

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