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market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets tracking election outcomes …
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Bush or Gore platforms during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Two sources of daily data during the six months leading … up to the election are incorporated: firm-specific equity returns and the probability of a Bush victory as implied by …
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Extremely narrow election outcomes--such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots--are likely to … College system. Starting from probabilistic simulations of likely presidential election outcomes that are similar to the … output from election forecasting models, we calculate the likelihood of disputable, narrow outcomes under the Electoral …
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Inversions--in which the popular vote winner loses the election--have occurred in 4 US Presidential elections. We show …
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. Our primary focus is the Presidential election of 2008, which followed an unprecedented swing from very generous mortgage … outcome of the election. The effect on voting in these swing states from local contractions in mortgage credit supply was five …
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This paper studies how international trade influences U.S. presidential elections. We expect the positive employment effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to diminish such support. Our national-level models show for...
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, turned against the incumbent Carter, a Democrat, and campaigned for Ronald Reagan, a Republican, in the 1980 Election. To …
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Collecting and analyzing panel data over the last four U.S. presidential elections, we study the drivers of self-reported happiness. We relate our empirical findings to existing models of elation, reference dependence, and belief formation. In addition to corroborating previous findings in the...
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election, the model shows that partisan congruence's impact on news discernment is substantially amplified during election … periods. Outside an election, when faced with a true and a fake news story and asked to select the most likely true story, an … individual is 4% more likely to choose the true story if it favors their party; in the days prior to the election, this increases …
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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 …
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