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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317397
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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - CESifo - 2014
Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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How a Firm Can Induce Legislators to Adopt a Bad Policy
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - CESifo - 2012
This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...
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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
Harstad, Bård - 2021
A “conservation good” (such as a tropical forest) is owned by a seller who is tempted to consume (or cut), but a buyer benefits more from conservation. The seller does conserve if the buyer is expected to buy, but the buyer is unwilling to pay as long as the seller conserves. This...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries : Is There a Relationship?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009
We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not...
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Political Stability and Fiscal Policy Time Series Evidence for the Swiss Federal Level Since 1849
Feld, Lars P. - 2009
This paper explores the role of political stability on fiscal policy choices in a time-series analysis over 158 years on the Swiss federal level. We argue that the fiscal-commons problem of public finances is affected by the time-horizon of a finance minister. Arguably, the incentives for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158327
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Size and Development of the Shadow Economy and of Do-it-Yourself Activities in Germany
Buehn, Andreas - 2007
This paper presents the first MIMIC (multiple indicator multiple causes) model estimate of the size and development of the shadow economy and of do-it-yourself (DIY) activities in Germany from 1970 to 2005. By 2005, they reached a level of about 17% and 4.94%. While the shadow economy has...
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The Determinants of Islamophobia - An Empirical Analysis of the Swiss Minaret Referendum
Orlanski, Olga - 2018
presence of Muslims to determine voting behavior. Approval rates for the bill rise with unemployment and decrease with … share of Muslims, which strongly supports the ‘religious threat' hypothesis. We compare the voting behavior in the minaret …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930285
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Aleatoric Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized … a combination of voting and random decisions. By using random mechanisms the interests of the whole population are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964771