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candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …
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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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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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situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First … over the possibility of government policies or instability brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors …, results show that the election induced peak shrinks from 3 months before and after the election date to 1-2 months when the …
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We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We … ethnicity (Somali American, African American, and white American). Prior to the 2016 election, employers contacted Somali … American applicants slightly less than white applicants but more than African American applicants. After the election, the …
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