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Meetings with costly participation: An empirical

Weninger, Quinn; tunrer, Matthew - Econometric Society - 2004

Using data from the Mid-Atlantic surf clam and ocean quahog fishery, we find that firms with a preference for extreme, rather than moderate, policies are much more likely to participate in public meetings where regulation is determined. We also find that participation rates are higher for...

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Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment: A Spatial Approach

Meagher, Kieron; Ghosh, Arghya - Econometric Society - 2004

The importance of infrastructure for growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature. Previous research has treated public investment in infrastructure as exogenous. We remedy this shortcoming by providing a political economy analysis of infrastructure choice based upon consumer...

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The power of the purse: what do the data say on US federal budget allocation to the states?"

Testa, Cecilia; Larcinse, Valentino; Rizzo, Leonzio - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper provides new evidence on the relevance of alternative theories of federal budget allocation to US States. Using a panel of 48 states over 20 years, we estimate the size and relative importance of different institutional and political factors in determining such allocation. We find...

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Coalitional Manipulation on Communication Network

Ju, Biung-Ghi - Econometric Society - 2004

In an abstract model of division problems, we study division rules that are not manipulable through a reallocation of individual characteristic vectors within a coalition (e.g. reallocation of claims in bankruptcy problems). A coalition can be formed if members of the coalition are connected on...

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Identity vs. Popularity

Mialon, Sue Hwang - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper models individual choices of social groups and the formation of group identity, and examines the conditions with which the group identity reinforces the productivity of individuals. A social group is defined as a network that provides with a market for interactions to its members....

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A Characterization of Optimal Feasible Tax Mechanism

Rhee, Byungchae - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper is motivated by a practical income (or wealth) taxation problem: For a public good economy where the provision of public goods is to be financed by income taxes collected from individuals, what is the optimal feasible tax mechanism when a social planner is relatively uninformed of the...

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Lines in the Sand on the Australian Political Beach

Fry, Tim R.L.; Davidson, Sinclair; Farrell, Lisa - Econometric Society - 2004

Spatial models of voting behaviour are the dominant paradigm in political science. Consistent with this approach, it … question is how we measure nearness or distance. We investigate this issue by estimating discrete choice models for voting … almost as good a predictor of their voting outcome as how close they are to the parties …

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The Political Economy of Interest Groups: Pressure and Information

Porteiro, Nicolas; Dahm, Matthias - Econometric Society - 2004

We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide a political decision-maker with policy-relevant information and to exert pressure on her. Both activities are costly but may induce the lobby's preferred policy. Our paper provides an integrated analysis of both lobbying activities and...

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Choice Shifts in Groups

Eliaz, Kfir; Ray, Debraj - Econometric Society - 2004

The phenomenon of "choice shifts" in group decision-making is fairly ubiquitous in the social psychology literature. Faced with a choice between a ``safe" and ``risky" decision, group members appear to move to one extreme or the other, relative to the choices each member might have made on her...

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Extremes and Moderates: A Characterization and an Application to Lobbying

Sengupta, Kunal; Agastya, Murali - Econometric Society - 2004

Abstract: In a society where individuals differ in their valuation of different social policies, when might one consider a given individual as having references that are extreme relative to the others? And how important are such preferences in determining eventual policy? In this paper, we...

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