Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/150265 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Theoretical Economics [ISSN:] 1555-7561 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] The Econometric Society [Place:] New Haven, CT [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 867-885
Publisher: 
The Econometric Society, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
We study the consequences of positive correlation of beliefs in the design of voting rules in a model with an arbitrary number of voters. We propose a notion of positive correlation, based on the likelihood of agreement of the k best alternatives (for any k) of two orders called TS correlation. We characterize the set of Ordinally Bayesian Incentive-Compatible (OBIC) (d'Aspremont and Peleg (1988)) voting rules with TS-correlated beliefs and additionally satisfying robustness with respect to local perturbations. We provide an example of a voting rule that satisfies OBIC with respect to all TS-correlated beliefs. The generally positive results contrast sharply with the negative results obtained for the independent case by Majumdar and Sen (2004) and parallel similar results in the auction design model (Cremer anf McLean (1988)).
Subjects: 
Voting rules
ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility
positive correlation
robustness with respect to beliefs
JEL: 
C70
C72
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Document Type: 
Article

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