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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation : Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina Dimitrova - 2015
the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the … elections result in pre-election manipulation of the local finances of moderate size.Before both types of elections, we observe … a halt in the increase of local tax rates. By contrast, elections at the two tiers of the government affect the size of …
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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints : A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
Grembi, Veronica - 2012
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098807
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104948
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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Engl, Florian - 2017
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...
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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality : Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Firpo, Sergio - 2012
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106944
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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under … runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy … single round elections. The predictions on the number of candidates and on policy volatility are confirmed by evidence from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076816
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Politics in the Family : Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995594
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Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Bagues, Manuel - 2017
education attainment and by the number of votes obtained. Moreover, within three rounds of elections, women fail to reach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950914
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Chamon, Marcos - 2010
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149609
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137250