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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions "and particularly trust in banks, business and government" has declined … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233928
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The political scar of epidemics
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2020
's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find … similar negative effects on confidence in public health systems, suggesting that the loss of confidence in political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237452
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The German manufacturing sector is a granular economy
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times : a cross-country analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel - 2018
This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821431
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! : long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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How partisan is the press? : multiple measures of media slant
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 public intellectuals on a left-right scale. We then estimate slant by using the number of mentions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522516
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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022
This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191645
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E-lections : voting behavior and the internet
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537622
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Do politicians change public attitudes?
Carlsson, Magnus; Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2016
A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite question: do political parties affect public attitudes on important policy issues? Problems of reverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580859
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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