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Policy innovations, political preferences, and cartel prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek; Sokol, D. Daniel - 2015

While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing … penalties related to fines and jail terms. There appear to be four distinct cartel policy regimes: pre-1978, 1978-1992, 1993 …

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On the optimal design of disaster insurance in a federation

Goodspeed, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2007

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Fiscal federalism, taxation and grants

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2016

We propose a theory of tax centralization and inter governmental grants in politico-economic equilibrium. The cost of …

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(Dis)honest politicians and the value of transparency for campaign promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2020

Promises are prevalent in many economic environments. They offer the opportunity to honor future obligations when promise keeping is observable. This paper studies the value of transparency and asks whether promises still work if such transparency is missing. We focus on the context of campaign...

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Go divisive or not? : how political campaigns affect turnout

Gennaioli, Caterina - 2010

This paper studies how political competition can lead candidates to strategically increase the salience of specific issues, in order to influence voting decisions of marginal groups, with non trivial consequences for turnout rates. In my setup issues differ in their divisiveness, to be defined...

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Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2012

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...

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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics …

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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies

Bernecker, Andreas - 2014

Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...

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Fractionalization and the Size of Government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2003

This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political economy model of tax determination, I study the effect of voters with a group-based social conscience, so they care more about the well-being of those belonging to their own...

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The design of political institutions : electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States

Drometer, Marcus (contributor); Rincke, Johannes (contributor) - 2008

Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behaviour of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...

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