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Tim Fedderson Ph.D.
Northwestern University
He is currently an assistant professor in the department
of managerial economics and decision sciences in the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Professor Feddersen's areas of specialization include
formal political theory, political parties and
legislative institutions. He is currently studying the
role of asymmetric information in elections with common
values, the positive and normative implications of
confidence procedures in legislatures; and the role of
activists as intermediaries between consumers and
firms.
Recent papers include "The Swing Voter's Curse"
appearing in the American Economic Review (1996);
"Voting Behavior and Information Aggregation in
Elections with Private Information" appearing in
Econometrica (1997); and "Convicting the Innocent: The
Inferiority of Unanimous Jury Verdicts" in the
American Political Science Review (1998).
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