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electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics …
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Many governments operate consumer debt relief programs, often timed to match the election cycle, but their political … that the program helped the incumbent candidate win that election, and that its effects persisted. Overall, we show how …
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This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level …
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foundation win the 2018 Presidential election, and that its effects persisted into the next election. We show how economic power …
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The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
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This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
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