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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; Mello, João M. P. de; Firpo, Sergio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a … achieves a majority of the votes. We show that the possibility of runoff increases political competition. We use the … discontinuity as a source of exogenous variation to infer causality from political competition to fiscal policy. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497585
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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688397
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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156469
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754117
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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
. It is possible that this is due to the lack of competition in the Australian media market. To the extent that we can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371869
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Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring
Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279234
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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Firpo, Sergio; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279333
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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703092
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The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates
Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703520
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763916