advocacy of market liberalisation and the protection of nationals' interests. Likewise, we review the still very scarce … on the analysis of privatisation and liberalisation in the utilities sectors. …

the public monopsony. Political support for liberalisation may therefore be limited. …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal … elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal …

This paper studies the impact of campaign spending on votes in French legislative elections. We exploit the political … augmented. We have data on two consecutive elections (one before and one after the reforms) and focus on candidates who competed … in both of them. We find that the difference in candidates’ campaign expenses across elections is strongly affected by …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting …

retaliation is effective: in areas exposed to retaliation Republican candidates fared worse in the 2018 Midterm elections, and …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections … (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to investigate why perceived corruption in …