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Committee decision-making under the threat of leaks

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hahn, Volker - 2020

Leaks are pervasive in politics. Hence, many committees that nominally operate under secrecy de facto operate under the threat that information might be passed on to outsiders. We study theoretically and experimentally how this possibility affects the behavior of committee members and the...

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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system

Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016

The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...

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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …

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The impact of tax knowledge and budget spending influence on tax compliance

Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2013

providing complete transparency on public expenditures and when taxpayers are given the possibility to decide on the use of …

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Between agora and shopping mall

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...

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Does policy communication during COVID-19 work?

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

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Countering public opposition to immigration : the impact of information campaigns

Facchini, Giovanni; Margalit, Yotam; Nakata, Hiroyuki - 2016

Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can information campaigns decrease public opposition to immigration? This paper reports results from a...

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The political economy of propaganda : evidence from US newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media content in the 1890s. The Populist Party sought support among poor farmers, regardless of race, providing the segregationist Democratic establishment in the South with an incentive...

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The meaning of failed replications : a review and proposal

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...

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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015

We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … three levels of transparency under which career concerns are predicted to affect behavior differently, and test the model …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively …

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