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, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …
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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations …
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We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …
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Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups repeatedly decide between a monetarily preferred outcome that generates a high payoff but also an ideologically undesirable externality, or an ideologically preferred outcome that...
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Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
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We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms’ underlying...
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. Finally, we look at a simple majority voting model. It turns out depending on the distribution of human capital, autarky and … free trade with and without compensation may be the outcome of majority voting …
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We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …
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