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Young voters and budget deficits
Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2023
This paper exploits a novel trial in Norwegian local elections in 2011 to provide empirical evidence on fiscal …
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Fiscal rules and the opportunistic behaviour of the incumbent politician : evidence from Italian municipalities
Bartolini, David; Santolini, Raffaella - 2009
Previous studies on electoral competition show that fiscal variables are manipulated by incumbent politicians in order to be re-elected. This phenomenon has been addressed by the literature on electoral budget cycle and, in a decentralised economy, by the literature on yardstick competition. Our...
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections … (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to investigate why perceived corruption in …
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Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle : evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902 - 1937
Aidt, Toke; Mooney, Graham - 2014
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates...
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Politics in the Facebook era evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020
Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...
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Local business taxation and competition for capital : the choice of the tax rate
Büttner, Thiess - 2001
A theoretical model describes the local choice of the tax rate on capital income. It establishes preferences and various fiscal conditions - including the tax rates of competing jurisdictions - as determinants of the tax rate. The empirical implications are tested using a large panel of...
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Corruption under austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021
We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP led to a decrease in both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per...
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Political entrenchment and GDP misreporting
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Skali, Ahmed; Torgler, Benno - 2019
By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political...
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Does progressivity always lead to progress? : the impact of local redistribution on tax manipulation
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2019
progressive schemes. First, we make use of the staggered timing of local elections to estimate a Difference-in-Differences model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996184
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Voter confirmation bias and electoral accountability
Lockwood, Ben - 2015 - First version: 8 February 2015, This version: 7 June 2015
probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …
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