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Elites or masses? : a structural model of policy divergence, voter sorting and apparent polarization in US presidential elections, 1972 - 2008
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2012
candidates ; policy divergence ; ideology ; voter migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503800
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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020
and the ideology of politicians campaigning for the House of Representatives in the 1992-2016 period. Implementing various … polarization measures based on ideology data derived from 16 million campaign finance contributors, our results show that migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391360
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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663552
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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies …, measurement of government ideology and empirical strategies to identify causal effects. Many studies conclude that parties do …, but these studies using data for the national level do not derive causal effects. Ideology-induced policies are prevalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646733
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Politics from the bench? : ideology and strategic voting in the U.S. supreme court
Clark, Tom S.; Montagnes, B. Pablo; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - 2018
those that were not. When a justice's choice decides the outcome of a case, her ideology plays an even greater role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919377
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Partisan bias in inflation expectations
Bachmann, Oliver; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2019
disentangle the extent to which political ideology and other individual characteristics predict inflation expectations: around 25 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119953
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The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg's ordoliberalism
Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2020
In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405461
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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008
In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790763
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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994174
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A quantile approach to the relationship between body mass, wealth, and inequality
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds that 19th century US black and white BMIs were distributed symmetrically; neither wasting nor obesity was common. Nineteenth century BMI values were also greater for blacks than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806677