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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559686
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Tax Contracts and Elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753187
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Coalition-Preclusion Contracts and Moderate Policies
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T.; Tejada, Oriol - 2014
We examine the effects of a novel political institution, which we call Coalition- Preclusion Contracts, on elections …, policies, and welfare. Coalition-Preclusion Contracts enable political parties to credibly commit before the elections not to … form a coalition after the elections with one or several other parties specified in the contract. We consider a political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753259
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Tax contracts and elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009 - This version: December 2009
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746679
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Tax contracts and elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 7, pp. 1461-1479
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702577
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Coalition-preclusion contracts and moderate policies
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T.; Tejada, Oriol - 2014 - This version: April 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359338
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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543745
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Coalition preclusion contracts and moderate policies
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T.; Tejada, Oriol - In: Games and economic behavior 114 (2019), pp. 28-46
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175361
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Tax contracts and elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 7, pp. 1461-1479
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580679
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Coalition-Preclusion Contracts and Moderate Policies
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Schneider, Maik T. - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2014
We examine the effects of a novel political institution, which we call Coalition- Preclusion Contracts, on elections …, policies, and welfare. Coalition-Preclusion Contracts enable political parties to credibly commit before the elections not to … form a coalition after the elections with one or several other parties specified in the contract. We consider a political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762513