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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...
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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
connects theory and data. We take input-output linkages across industries into account and make use of the recently established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516481
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Dynamic female labor supply
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910297
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Directed search in the housing market
Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2009
In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the way houses are bought and sold in the United States. Our model is consistent with the observation that houses are sometimes sold above, sometimes below and sometimes at the...
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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404042
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Take a chance on ABBA
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017
The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...
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Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2020
. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one policy over another to make the lobbying opposition less …
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Buying supermajorities in the lab
Fehrler, Sebastian; Schneider, Maik T. - 2019
Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the … literature on vote-buying is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose and Snyder (1996), which predicts that … additional treatments with simultaneous moves. We find that lobbies buy supermajorities as predicted by the theory. Our results …
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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516454
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Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights the role of the local elite in lobbying for policies which favour … coordination costs across ethnic groups are relevant in determining the equilibrium lobbying behaviour. This results in ethnic … non-developmental items, all of which is consistent with our theory. …
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