the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … competitiveness of elections and, therefore, candidates' spending. Only information disclosed prior to electoral campaigns impacts …Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to …

following the election, even after controlling forindustry-specific effects and firm-specific controls. This suggests that … following election, suggesting that contributionsgained firms preferential access to finance. …

. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re-election … and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections … political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

elections, the former determines the election outcome, whereas the latter drives voter turnout. With a single media outlet, a …We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … released by media allows voters to infer the relative appeal of the two candidates, and the closeness of elections. In large …

parties are uncertain about voters' preferences. We show that if political parties haveincomplete information about voters …

election. We focus on the 2014 European Parliament election turnout in the district of the Chilean's geocoded residence and … exploit local transitory shocks to the cost of voting given by the rainfall on the day of the election. We find that migrants …

Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide toacquire information and their capacity to … aggregate private information. In a decisionproblem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its … the other agent's vote.This in turn determines the decision to acquire information. In the debate about a rationalchoice …