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Apparently judges’ decisions are not motivated by maximizing their own profit. The literature uses two strategies to explain this observation: judges care about the long-term monetary consequences for themselves, or individuals who are more strongly motivated by the common good self-select...
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Election in 2009. We conducted a daily web survey for seven days before and after the election, obtaining1068 responses … significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …
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Estimating difference-in-differences models on a comprehensive dataset of Italian companies, we provide novel insights into the literature on political uncertainty and firm investment. We first establish that local political uncertainty leads to declining investment. Next, we show that family...
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according to the 1995 election law. We show that in the second and third weeks after the 2020 elections (held on October 9 …
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election affects their performance. This study uses 3,716 firm-year observations for firms listed on the Indonesian Stock … parties involved in the presidential election in the past three elections. Due to the complexity of the data collection, this … excellent financial performance of SOEs disappears around the election period. It indicates that being a board member of state …
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electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics …
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results of the system GMM revealed that the fiscal deficit is significantly large in election years and the deficit spending … spills into the year after the election, though not as high as in the election year. We could not, however, find a … significant effect in the pre-election year. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that though democracy significantly lowers …
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