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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the sub-national level. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts for the years of 1994 to 2009, we address the determinants of local investment expenditures in public...

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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...

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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ

Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep Singh; Langørgen, Audun; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

theory-based framework designed to provide a coherent evaluation of the distributional impact of local public services. The …

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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...

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