We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation … activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians …

office. Based on a sample of 356 inexperienced and experienced local politicians in West Bengal, India, we combine survey … in the attitudes of inexperienced politicians, a lower faith in political institutions and a greater distaste for … corruption can be seen among experienced politicians, particularly women. However, this seeming hardening in attitudes among …

experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a …

-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive to negative fact-checking. Specifically, we observe a significative … reduction in the number of incorrect statements made by politicians after being treated. This effect persists for at least two … months. We also observe a reduction in the probability of politicians making verifiable statements, suggesting that fact …

educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

preferences of a policy maker. Yet, little is known about policy maker's normative views in a way amenable to this use. In a … resolving preference conflicts across individuals, politicians place substantially more importance on least-favored than on most …" which insists that choices merit intervention only if the lure of immediacy may bias intertemporal choice. Politicians' and …

When politicians have lower discount factors than voters, democratic elections cannot sufficiently motivate politicians … to undertake long-term socially beneficial projects. When politicians can offer incentive contracts which become … politicians' time preferences. In the non-commitment case, incentive contracts may need to include a golden parachute clause …

Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human …

We use the US presidential election on 3 November 2020 to examine how the US president influences economic expectations …-run and (ii) experts’ uncertainty increased after the election. Our results suggest that exceptional politicians influence …