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Voter preferences, electoral promises, and the composition of public spending
Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2020
rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics of voter choices into a probabilistic voting model with public spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256493
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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
variation of elected competitors by investigating changes in competition induced by legislators who leave parliament during the … inclusion of other measures for political competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301926
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On the weights of nations : assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union
Barberà, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004
Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602899
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The cost of segregation in social networks
Allouch, Nizar - 2013
This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757474
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A novel approach to estimating the demand value of road safety
Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Schläpfer, Felix; Lobsiger, … - 2016 - This version March 8, 2016
We estimate the demand value of road safety improvements in Switzerland from survey data using a novel elicitation approach. Individuals’ responses to questions about how much public spending on road safety should be increased are combined with observations of income, tax rate, and road usage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622075
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On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2009
The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824513
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A competitive equilibrium for a warm glow economy
Allouch, Nizar - 2009
to the normative and positive theory of public goods provision. First, it is a price based mechanism achieving efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827909
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A core-equilibrium convergence in an economy with public goods
Allouch, Nizar - 2009
This paper deals with a core-equilibrium equivalence in an economy with public goods where preferences of consumers display warm glow effects. We demonstrate that provided that each consumer becomes satiated to other consumers provision, it holds that, for a sufficiently large economy, the set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827913
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The cost of segregation in social networks
Allouch, Nizar - 2013
This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742339
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On the private provision of public goods on networks
Allouch, Nizar - 2012
This paper analyzes the private provision of public goods where consumers interact within a fixed network structure and may benefit only from their direct neighbors’ provisions. We present a proof for existence and uniqueness of a Nash equilibrium with general best-reply functions. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539253