PhD student in Quantitative Economics at Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Dates of visit: May - August 2011
Project description: Judgment aggregation theory deals with the problems of aggregating individual judgments into collective judgments. Instead of following the social-choice theoretic approach of aiming to find out how ñand whether ñgroup judgments can refláect the individual' judgments in a procedurally fair manner, my project takes the 'epistemic 'approach by aiming to reach true group judgments. This project focuses on judgment aggregation from the truth-tracking and strategic-voting perspective and analyses efficient information aggregation and strategic voting in a Bayesian voting game. By doing so, this work combines two so far disconnected bodies of work, namely the judgment aggregation literature and the binary collective choice literature.