elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a … vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a runoff election takes place among the top two candidates if neither …

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

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

elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the … problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic … indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in expectations about the likely winner during election day. Analyzing high …

data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to the …

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 …

hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with detailed administrative data on …