This paper studies a model of how political parties use resources for campaigning to inform voters. We show existence … following. Consider voters that are informed by one party only, say party 1. If both parties move closer to each other, then the … actual and expected platform moves closer to the indifferent voters peak. By concavity of preferences, the increase in payoff …

whether having more informed voters aects the political budgetcycle. To start, investment spending in the year before … information to votersand I find that the reduction in spending after the reform is twice as strong in provinceswith above …-median local newspapers sales per capita. I interpret these results as evidencethat mayors react to more informed voters by …

simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from … technologies hinges on their content ("information" vs "entertainment"), their effectiveness in fostering coordination, and the …

-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official … institutions' submissions with REF outcomes provides information on the latent pass-marks used for assigning quality levels, which …