Public versus Secret Voting in Committees
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This online appendix is organized as follows: section A discusses a number of extensions to our benchmark model, section B presents additional experimental results omitted from the main text, section C collects the proofs of the propositions of the paper, section D presents the derivation of the version of the model tested in the lab and, nally, section E presents the English version of the experiment instructions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017