Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
adopting costly reforms with future benefits and reconciles it with the evidence that reformist governments are not punished by … voters. To do so, it proposes a model of elections where political ability is ex-ante unknown and investment in reforms is …, politicians make too little reforms in an attempt to signal high ability and increase their reappointment probability. Although in …