| Article ID: | iaor200942 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 37 |
| End Page Number: | 44 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2005 |
| Journal: | Central European Journal of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Eckert Daniel, Klamler Christian, Mitlhner Johann |
| Keywords: | voting |
This paper makes a preliminary step into the analysis of the determinants of the evolution and selection of voting rules by capturing the intuition of a trade-off between efficiency and information costs. By changing the weight associated with information costs we investigate the performance of voting rules from two major classes of scoring rules.