The role of asymmetric information in political reform processes (A02)

该项目从理论上和实证上考察了信息不对称在政治改革集体决策中的作用。我们的目标是了解改革失败在多大程度上可以归因于信息不对称，并找出如何通过改进改革建议和管理改革进程的政治机构的设计来减轻这种失败。在第三个资助期，我们会把项目的重点转移到不同政策范畴的实际应用上。我们的目标是使我们的成果对改革建议的设计和体制改革有用。

The project theoretically and empirically investigates the role of asymmetric information in collective decisions about political reforms. Our objective is to understand to what extent reform failures can be attributed to information asymmetries and to find out how such failures can be mitigated by improving the design of reform proposals and political institutions that govern reform processes. In the third funding period, we will move the focus of the project to practical applications in different policy areas. Our objective is to make our results useful for the design of reform proposals and for institutional reforms.