We examine the determinants of election as Fellow of the Econometric Society, an example of voting within a group to …

I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years …: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between … forty years. I develop a simple optimizing model of the union decision to hold a representation election that can account …

weak. One explanation for the failure to uncover the expected relationship between federal spending and election outcomes …

that when a Senate election is held, there is already a sitting senator. If the voters care about the policy position of … their state delegation in each election, they may favor the candidate of the party which is not holding the other seat. We …

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

This paper examines the relationship between the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) and election polls during the 1988 … Canadian General Election campaign. Two hypotheses are investigated: first, did polls influence the TSE, and secondly, if so …

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