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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning versus Re-election Concerns
Le Borgne, Eric; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
becomes a more accurate signal of their ability. Elections reduce the learning effect, and the reduction in this effect may … more than offset the positive ‘re-election concerns’ effect of elections on effort, implying higher effort with appointment …. When this occurs, appointment of officials may welfare-dominate elections. …
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Political Careers or Career Politicians?
Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private...
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Mediocracy
Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
In this paper, we study the initial recruitment of individuals in the political sector. We propose an equilibrium model of political recruitment by a party who faces competition for political talent from the lobbying sector. We show that a political party may deliberately choose to recruit only...
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We apply a regression discontinuity design to estimate the returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness in any electoral system, and apply it to the Finnish proportional open list system. Getting elected to...
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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences … are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes
Conconi, Paola; DeRemer, David; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper shows that electoral incentives affect the occurrence of trade disputes. Focusing on WTO disputes filed by the United States during the 1995-2012 period, we show that U.S. presidents are more likely to initiate a dispute in the year preceding their re-election date. Moreover, disputes...
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Designing Democracies for Sustainability
Gersbach, Hans; Kleinschmidt, Tobias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
sustainability. We show that the dual democratic mechanism – rejection/support rewards (RSRs) for politicians and elections – can …
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Competing for Endorsements
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Endorsements are a simple language for communication between well-informed interest-group leaders and less-informed interest-group members. The members, who share some policy concerns, may not fully understand where their interests lie on certain issues. If their leaders cannot fully explain the...
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Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies
Alesina, Alberto F; Cohen, Gerald D; Roubini, Nouriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
`loose' fiscal policy prior to elections. Fourth, inflation exhibits a post-electoral jump, which could be explained by …
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Campaign Advertising and Voter Welfare
Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
race is modeled as a signalling game with three classes of players: a continuum of voters, two candidates, and one interest …
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