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Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate...

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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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