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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates: Results for German regions
Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011
A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …
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Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission
Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...
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Pensions, Income Taxes and Homeownership : A Cross-Country Analysis
Fehr, Hans; Hofmann, Maurice; Kudrna, George - 2021
This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides … have similar incomes per capita but very different homeownership rates, with the US and Australia having much higher … homeownership compared to Germany. The question is to what extent the observed differences in homeownership are induced by national …
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Election Systems, the "Beauty Premium" in Politics, and the Beauty of Dissent
Potrafke, Niklas - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use...
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Do Inheritance Rules Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from an Alpine Region
Bonoldi, Andrea - 2020
We examine the relationship between inheritance rules and voter turnout. Inheritance rules are measured by entailed farms in South Tyrol: land properties whose inheritance is regulated by a law similar to the right of primogeniture. Using data for municipalities between 1998 and 2010, we show...
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A Note on Detecting Dividing Lines in Turnout : Spatial Dependence and Heterogeneity in the 2012 US Presidential Election
Fiorino, Nadia - 2020
US voters have been moving apart in the last twenty years. This paper analyzes how their voting participation has partitioned by looking at US counties in the 2012 Presidential elections. To tackle this question, we propose a methodology that jointly addresses spatial autocorrelation of the...
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International Political Alignment During the Trump Presidency : Voting at the UN General Assembly
Mosler, Martin - 2020
We examine voting behavior of Western allied countries in line with the United States over the period 1949 until 2019. Descriptive statistics show that voting in line with the United States on resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was on average 7.2 percentage points lower...
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Voting on Urban Land Development
Wrede, Matthias - 2020
homeownership and expenditure-crowding-out hypotheses …
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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
Far-right and far-left parties by definition occupy the fringes of politics, with policy proposals outside the mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political representation at the local level. We study attitudes...
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Measuring Electoral Competitiveness : With Application to the Indian States
Dash, Bharatee Bhusana - 2018
We consider alternative methods of measuring the competitiveness of a majoritarian electoral system in the context of an analysis of Indian State elections. Our analysis highlights a number of weaknesses in the construction and interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective...
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