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Campaign Advertising and Voter Welfare
Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper investigates the role of campaign advertising and the opportunity of legal restrictions on it. An electoral … receive on non-directly informative advertising. This paper shows that: (1) A separating equilibrium exists in which the group … rational, a ban on campaign advertising can be welfare-improving; and (3) Split contributions may arise in equilibrium (and …
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Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from A Randomised Experiment
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
indicates that stronger incentives are needed for caseworkers to comply with statistical profiling and targeting systems. …
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Public Safety and the Moral Dilemma in the Defense Against Terror
Franck, Raphael; Hillman, Arye L.; Krausz, Miriam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The economic theory of defense has traditionally described public safety as achieved through investments that deter adversaries. Deterrence is however ineffective, and preemptive defense is required, when a population of intended victims confronts supreme-value suicide terror. A moral dilemma...
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Privacy, Time Consistent Optimal Labour Income Taxation and Education Policy
Konrad, Kai A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
income taxation privacy reduces welfare losses and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy. …
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Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes
Conconi, Paola; DeRemer, David; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper shows that electoral incentives affect the occurrence of trade disputes. Focusing on WTO disputes filed by the United States during the 1995-2012 period, we show that U.S. presidents are more likely to initiate a dispute in the year preceding their re-election date. Moreover, disputes...
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Higher Vote Thresholds for Incumbents, Effort and Selection
Gersbach, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
simple model we show that the power of elections as a selection and incentive device can be improved by requiring higher vote …
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The Political Cost of Reforms
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
voters. To do so, it proposes a model of elections where political ability is ex-ante unknown and investment in reforms is … unobservable. On the one hand, elections improve accountability and allow to keep well-performing incumbents. On the other …
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Elected Versus Appointed Regulators: Theory And Evidence
Besley, Timothy J.; Coate, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper contrasts direct election with political appointment of regulators. When regulators are appointed, regulatory policy becomes bundled with other policy issues for which the appointing politicians are responsible. Since regulatory issues are not salient for most voters, regulatory...
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Designing Democracies for Sustainability
Gersbach, Hans; Kleinschmidt, Tobias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
sustainability. We show that the dual democratic mechanism – rejection/support rewards (RSRs) for politicians and elections – can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662383
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Competing for Endorsements
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Endorsements are a simple language for communication between well-informed interest-group leaders and less-informed interest-group members. The members, who share some policy concerns, may not fully understand where their interests lie on certain issues. If their leaders cannot fully explain the...
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