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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent’s campaign but...
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Delegation and Polarization of Platforms in Political Competition
Faulí-Oller, Ramon; Ok, Efe A; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
variety of circumstances, this, in turn, yields a polarization of equilibrium policy choices of the candidates. It is thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791655
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Does polarization of opinions lead to polarization of platforms? the case of correlation neglect
Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In this paper we question the common wisdom that more polarized voters’ opinions imply larger policy polarization. We … analyze a voting model in which the source of the polarization in voters’ opinions is “correlation neglect”, that is, voters … neglect the correlation in their information sources. Our main result shows that such polarization in opinions does not …
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Party Formation and Racism
Anesi, Vincent; De Donder, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop a model where voters differ in their exogenous income and in their ideological views regarding what we call 'racism'. Electoral competition, modelled à la Levy (2004), takes place between (one or several) parties which propose platforms consisting of both an ideological and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114242
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A DSGE Model of China
Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping's reforms up until the crisis period. Bayesian ranking methods are heavily influenced by controversial priors on the degree of price/wage rigidity. When the overall models are tested...
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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals
Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide a method allowing to identify margins in an oligopoly price competition game when prices may not be freely chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory constraints in the pharmaceutical industry, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083879
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A DSGE Model of China
Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping's reforms up until the crisis period. Bayesian ranking methods are heavily influenced by controversial priors on the degree of price/wage rigidity. When the overall models are tested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084701
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A; Siegmann, Arjen; van Vuuren, Aico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Does Islamic terrorism have an effect on the general attitudes towards Muslim minorities? We use the murder of Theo van Gogh as an event study to address this question. Specifically, we use the hedonic-market model and test for an effect on listed house prices in neighbourhoods where more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497845
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If Winning Isn't Everything, Why Do They Keep Score? A Structural Empirical Analysis of Dutch Flower Auctions
den Berg, Gerard J van; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper provides a structural empirical analysis of Dutch auctions of houseplants at the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. The data set is unique for Dutch auctions in the sense that it includes observations of all losing bids in an interval adjacent to the winning bid. The size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656139
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Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Passenger Rail Transport
Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
transport industry, based on game theory models. In our setting, consumers choose a transport mode and an operator to travel on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656264