autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates vary across local councils, the data allows us to disentangle effects … behavior as the growth rate of the local business tax is significantly reduced in the election year and the year prior to the … election, while it jumps up in the year after the election. This pattern turns out to be robust against a number of sensitivity …

interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on … close election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find (1) that the party of the mayor can receive a …

uncertain prospects of re-election, find it optimal to follow relatively shortsighted fiscal policies, and that this lowers …

the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

reliable indications of the occurrence of welfare-chauvinistic effects that led to the success of the AfD in the 2017 election. …