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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548053
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Voting power and survival : the case of a ruling party
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019199
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872697
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Upward income mobility and legislator support for education policies
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie - 2018
This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop … upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with … electoral district-level upward mobility we find that the likelihood of a legislator voting "no" on redistributive education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798108
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804277
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Does trade exposure explain anti-globalization votes?
Bouët, Antoine; Edo, Anthony; Emlinger, Charlotte - 2024
We investigate the local effects of trade exposure and immigration on voting behavior in France from 1988 to 2022. We … use the content of each candidate's manifesto to construct an anti-globalization voting index for each French presidential … products imported. While exposure to imports of final goods increases anti-globalization voting, exposure to imports of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075844
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548648
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
-preserving system based on an open two-sided market in which buyers and sellers of peer review services would both be subject to a set … such an open market in which all elements are subject to peer review will over time lead to specialized reviewers in … market set-up would both professionalize the peer review process and make it completely transparent, an innovation long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458074
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On market forces and human evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414433