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Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets

Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...

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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …

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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the …

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …

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Crime, Unemployment, and Xenophobia? An Ecological Analysis of Right-Wing Election Results in Hamburg, 1986−2005

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of right-wing extremist and populist parties in the German city state of Hamburg between 1986 and 2005. The ecological determinants of voting for right-wing parties on the district...

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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic …-Democrat differential was also observed for the 2000 Bush-Gore contest. Prediction market based analyses of all Presidential elections since …

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The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the immigrant share increases. Our results indicate that in the elections some Danish voters voice their displeasure about …

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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

-wing "Republikaner" party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …

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