Is Specialization Desirable in Committee Decision Making?

Ruth Ben-Yashar (), Winston Koh and Shmuel Nitzan
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Ruth Ben-Yashar: Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University

No 2009-16, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Committee decision making is examined in this study focusing on the role assigned to the committee members. In particular, we are concerned about the comparison between committee performance under specialization and non-specialization of the decision makers.

Keywords: framing; project selection; public policy; collective decision making; committee; uncertain dichotomous choice; specialization; simple majority rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-cdm, nep-ppm, nep-sea and nep-upt
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