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The Political Economics of Higher Education Finance for Mobile Individuals
Übelmesser, Silke; Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households dffer in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous...
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Do Electoral Rules Make Legislators Differently Responsive to Fiscal Transfers? Evidence from German Municipalities
Köthenbürger, Marko; Egger, Peter; Smart, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
a system of direct mayoral elections. We point to the different electoral incentives of mayors in the two systems to …
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Lottery versus All-Pay Auction Contests: A Revenue Dominance Theorem
Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We allow a contest organizer to bias a contest in a discriminatory way; i.e., she can favor specific contestants by designing the contest rule in order to maximize total equilibrium effort (resp. revenue). The two predominant contest regimes are considered, all-pay auctions and lottery contests....
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Lobbying and Elections
Klingelhöfer, Jan - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
In using their citizen candidate framework, Besley and Coate (2001) fi nd that if citizen candidates with sufficiently extreme preferences are available, lobbying has no in fluence on equilibrium policy. I show that this result does not hold in a model with ideological parties instead of citizen...
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Optimal Prizes in Dynamic Elimination Contests: An Experimental Analysis
Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of different prize structures on the effort choices of participants in two-stage elimination contests. A format with a single prize is shown to maximize total effort over both stages, but induces low effort in stage 1 and high effort in stage 2. By contrast, a...
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Brothers in Arms - An Experiment on the Alliance Puzzle
Konrad, Kai A.; Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
The generic alliance game considers players in an alliance who fight against an external enemy. After victory, the alliance may break up, and its members fight against each other about the spoils of the victory. Our experimental analysis of this game shows: In-group solidarity vanishes after the...
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Voting as a Signaling Device
Schwager, Robert; Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
does not arise, because the benefit of voting does not vanish with population size. (ii) Turnout in elections is positively …
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Home Voters, House Prices, and the Political Economy of Zoning
Dascher, Kristof - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
One explanation of the recent real estate bubble might point to homeowners' artificially restricting housing supply. While empirical work has not found unequivocal evidence in support of this hypothesis, homeowners may well be restricting supply nonetheless, and without this restriction...
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Incumbency Effects in Germany: Federal and Mayoral Elections
Sieger, Philip - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
In this paper incumbency effects in Federal Elections and Mayoral Elections in Germany are estimated using a quasi … parties in Germany cause an increase in vote share of 1.4%-1.7% in Federal Elections. Analyzing Mayoral Elections, the causal … visibility and popularity of mayors compared to candidates in Federal Elections. …
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It's the occupation, stupid! Explaining candidates' success in low-information local elections
Mechtel, Mario - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
We analyze the effects of personal characteristics of 4239 political candidates on their performance in local elections …
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