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"party" is explicitly modeled as a sequence of overlapping generations of candidates, all of whom face finite decision …
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appear to pass more punitive sentences when they are up for re-election, consistent with models of signaling where voters …
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and past election results. We isolate the impact of candidates' rankings using an RDD in French local and parliamentary … candidates and voters and of election outcomes …
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equilibria under both rules and identify the features of an election that favor different types of voting behavior: either …
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A number of studies claim that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, have power … aggregate pseudo market timing bias for a variety of predictive regressions based on managerial decision variables. We find that …
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differences in underlying individual characteristics, or by biased decision makers. Becker (1957) proposed an outcome test for … bias leading to a large body of related empirical work, with recent innovations in settings where decision makers are … exogenously assigned to cases and vary progressively in their decision tendencies. We carefully examine what can be learned about …
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errors in decision making are inevitable. Moreover, under the appropriate conditions, these decisions are random conditional … situations than would be possible with randomized control trials. This point is illustrated with data from medical decision …
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It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...
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