Models to the issue of altruism which rely on externalities of well-being are rarely used explicitly. In this paper we … compare such utility-based approaches with the standard approach on altruism which is based on externalities of income …

officials who permitted them. How voters responded to these in the 2002 parliamentary elections is investigated, using cross …

the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …

impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … the vote share in presidential elections between 2012 and 2018. Putin gained 1.54 percentage points at those polling … stations that had a sanctioned firm in immediate vicinity. Targeted sanctions imposition also affected voter turnout. The …

) which allow us to disentangle behaviors compatible with altruism, inequity aversion, and reference dependent altruism. Most …

We present a model of participation in elections in small networks, in which citizens suþer from cross-pressures if … voting against the alternative preferred by some of their social contacts. We analyze how the existence of cross …-pressures may shape voting decisions, and so, political outcomes; and how candidates may exploit this eþect to their interest. …

voting outcome in period t becomes the status quo in period t+1. We study symmetric Markov equilibria of the resulting game … alternative, and the discount factor (committee impatience). We report several new findings. Voting behavior is selfish and myopic …