TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ben-Yashar, Ruth
AU  - Danziger, Leif
        TI  - The Unanimity Rule and Extremely Asymmetric Committees
        PY  - 2016/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9875
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9875
        AB  - This paper analyzes how to allocate experts into committees that use the unanimity rule to make decisions. We show that an optimal allocation of experts is extremely asymmetric. To reach the optimal allocation, therefore, one needs only to rank the experts in terms of their abilities and then allocate adjacent experts such that an expert's ability tends to vary inversely with the size of his committee. In the special case of three-member committees, we show that the optimal allocation maximizes the sum of the products of the experts' skills in each committee.
        KW  - unanimity rule
KW  - extremely asymmetric committees
KW  - optimal composition of committees
        ER  -