This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...

FiFo-CPE Discussion Papers Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge Discussion Paper No. 08-3 Politicians’ outside earnings and electoral competition Johannes Becker, Andreas Peichl und Johannes Rincke 2008 Finanzwissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut an der...