Welfare-improving misreported polls

We introduce an electoral pollster in a two-candidate costly voting model to study the incentives that pollsters have regarding the release of poll results. In our model, the pollster has private knowledge about the distribution of citizens\' preferences, but it may report false information to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Durazzo, Felipe Ricardo
Other Authors: Rubin, David Daniel Turchick
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP 2018
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Online Access:http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-11072018-150455/