general election is an endogenous policy variable in a parliamentary system. Thus, one of the interesting questions in a …

before the election. Our empirical results suggest that our model performs at least as well and often better than alternative …

The 1896 presidential election between William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley has gained new salience in the wake … indicate that bank entry would have had to be very significantly slower to tip the election. There is no question that economic … election …

this paper we develop a unique micro-dataset on public works procurement from two fast-growing economies, India and … Indonesia, and use regional and time variation in the adoption of e-procurement across both countries to examine its impact. We … improvements. In India, where we observe an independent measure of construction quality, e-procurement improves the average road …

, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being …

We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP …