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Ortoleva, Pietro - 2013

This paper studies, theoretically and empirically, the role of overconfidence in political behavior. Our model of overconfidence in beliefs predicts that overconfidence leads to ideological extremeness, increased voter turnout, and increased strength of partisan identification. Moreover, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078592

Good Bye Lenin (or Not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

Communism for a longer time period. We further find that East Germans' preferences converge towards those of West Germans. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767506

Has the European Union Achieved a Single Pharmaceutical Market?

Timur, Aysegul - 2010

This paper explores price differences in the European Union (EU) pharmaceutical market, the EU's fifth largest industry. With the aim of enhancing quality of life along with industry competitiveness and R&D capability, many EU directives have been adopted to achieve a single EU-wide...

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Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers

Benmelech, Efraim - 2007

This paper studies the relation between human capital of suicide bombers and outcomes of their suicide attacks. We argue that human capital is an important factor in the production of terrorism, and that if terrorists behave rationally we should observe that more able suicide bombers are...

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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010

The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic counterterrorism (CT) and new international relations among individual national CT organizations. This paper discusses the...

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Strategic Extremism : Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values

Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - 2021

marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge … from attracting the median voter, why do vote-maximizing politicians veer off into extremism? In this paper, we find that … strategic extremism depends on an important intensive margin where politicians want to induce their core constituents to vote …

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Extremism and Social Learning

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

) statements that are designed to manipulate. Credulous Bayesianism can produce extremism and significant blunders. We discuss the …

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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter

Giavazzi, Francesco; Iglhaut, Felix; Lemoli, Giacomo; … - 2022

We study the role of perceived threats from other cultures induced by terrorist attacks and by a criminal event on public discourse and voters’ support for radical right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...

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Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground : An Economist'S View of Radical Religious Militias

Berman, Eli - 2021

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hama and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230215

Political Economy in a Changing World

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...

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