Bucciol, Alessandro; Zarri, Luca - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2013
In this paper, we quantify the extent and identify some major determinants of lying in politics. We focus on public claims made by US national politicians between 2007 and 2012 and present a series of intriguing results. While politicians – and prominent ones in particular – are reluctant to...