Symmetric and asymmetric committees |
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Authors: | Ruth Ben-Yashar Leif Danziger |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel;2. Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;3. CESifo, Poschingerstrasse 5, 81679 Munich, Germany;4. IZA, Schaumburg-Lippe Strasse 7/9, 53113 Bonn, Germany |
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Abstract: | This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of the various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in the spirit of Condorcet, a symmetric composition of committees is not always optimal. In other words, decision makers with different skill levels should not generally be evenly divided among the committees. However, in the special case of only two skill levels, it is optimal to compose the committees evenly. |
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