Preference aggregation with incomplete information

Econometrica

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 589-599

  Chambers, Christopher P ^a   Hayashi, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Harsanyi's theorem; Incomplete information; Social choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897036418     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA11612     Document Type: Article

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