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Time Consistency in Dynamic Bargaining: The Role of Committees as Substitutes for Commitment

Riboni, Alessandro - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

. In this paper policies are negotiated in a committee by playing a dynamic voting game. The implications of this change …

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To segregate or to integrate: education politics and democracy

Doepke, Matthias; Croix, David de la - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

fertility with voting on public schooling expenditures. The theory is able to account for the facts mentioned above. Countries …

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Producing the Right Pond: Colleges as Network Creators

Makler, Christopher R. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

In many economic contexts, especially signaling and search models, agents care about the distribution of other agents around them. Because of this, firms arise which produce neither goods nor services, but local â€œpondsâ€ of agents. Such firms derive their attractiveness through the...

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Women: From Wife to Citizen

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

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Group Formation and Voter Participation

Martinelli, Cesar; Herrera, Helios - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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The Wisdom of the Minority

Callander, Steven; Horner, Johannes - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Dynamic Enfranchisement

Lagunoff, Roger; Jack, William - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

Why would a political elite voluntarily dilute its political power by extending the voting franchise? This paper … delegation game" corresponds to a majority vote decision by the enfranchised group to expand the set of citizens with voting … median of a larger voting franchise in the next period. We characterize the equilibria by their Euler equations. In certain …

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Tirole, Jean; Benabou, Roland - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

This paper develops a joint theory of ideology and redistributive policy to account for the striking divergence found across countries in voters? attitudes about the causes of individual wealth and poverty (self-reliance or societal forces), as well as in the observed social contract...

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Reputation and Career Concerns

Martinez, Leonardo - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper studies Holmstrom's [1999] seminal model of career concerns, but considers that a small change in the beliefs about the agent's future productivity may imply a large change in his compensation---because, for example, the agent may be fired or promoted. This allows us to study how the...

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Dynamics of Westminster Parliamentarism

Kalandrakis, Tasos - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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