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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 …

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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...

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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....

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Tacit lobbying agreements : an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - 2010

of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on lowtax … policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …% of societies with finitelyrepeated encounters. However, lobbying investments are not always profitable, and profitsharing …

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Politicians, governed vs. non-governed interest groups and rent dissipation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2013

Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...

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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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Let's (not) escalate this! : leadership and communication in a group contest

Heine, Florian; Riedl, Arno - 2025

Economic and social situations where groups have to compete are ubiquitous. Such group contests create both a coordination problem within and between groups. Introducing leaders may help to mitigate these coordination problems. However, little is known about the effect of leadership in group...

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