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Mediocracy
Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
political party may deliberately choose to recruit only mediocre politicians, in spite of the fact that it could afford to … recruit better individuals who would like to become politicians. We argue that this finding may contribute to explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497781
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Disclosure by Politicians
Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; López-de-Silanes, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114449
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Competition of Politicians for Wages and Office
Gersbach, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We examine a model in which two politicians compete for office and for wages. Their remunerations are either set by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661439
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The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory
Battaglini, Marco; Morton, Rebecca; Palfrey, Thomas R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper reports the first laboratory study of the swing voter’s curse and provides insights on the larger theoretical and empirical literature on 'pivotal voter' models. Our experiment controls for different information levels of voters, as well as the size of the electorate, the...
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