Similar Search Results

Last Minute Policies and the Incumbency Advantage

Manzoni, Elena; Penczynski, Stefan P. - CESifo - 2012

This paper models a purely informational mechanism behind the incumbency advantage. In a two-period electoral campaign with two policy issues, a specialized incumbent and an unspecialized, but possibly more competent challenger compete for election by voters who are heterogeneously informed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540256

Study on the competitiveness of the European companies and resource efficiency ; final report ; revised version after the stakeholders consultation workshop and including policy recommendations

ECORYS Research and consulting <Rotterdam> - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641116

Investment in the Absence of Property Rights: The Role of Incumbency Advantages

Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2002

In many situations the individuals who can generate some output must enter a contest for appropriating this output. This paper analyses the investment incentives of such agents and the role of incumbency advantages in the contest. Depending on the advantages, an increase in the productivity of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196286

The Effects of Partisan Alignment on the Allocation of Intergovernmental Transfers. Differences-in-Differences Estimates for Spain

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - CESifo - 2006

In this paper we test the hypothesis that municipalities aligned with upper-tier grantor governments (i.e., controlled by the same party) will receive more grants than those that are unaligned. We use a rich Spanish database, which provides information on grants received by nearly 900...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405796

Politicians’ Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition

Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2004

We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405847

Endogenous Lobbying

Felli, Leonardo; Merlo, Antonio M. - CESifo - 2000

In this paper we endogenize the number and characteristics of lobbies in a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy where citizens can lobby an elected policy-maker. We find that lobbying always matters. That is, lobbying always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. Moreover, only one...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094249

The Design of Political Institutions: Electoral Competition and the Choice of Ballot Access Restrictions in the United States

Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - CESifo - 2008

potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the link between the degree of electoral competition and the design of ballot … access restrictions in the United States. Exploiting exogenous variation in electoral competition at the state level induced … independent candidates have been systematically adjusted to changing degrees of electoral competition. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094420