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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
Liessem, Verena - 2003
The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the … election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts … enhance the accountability of politicians and to increase social welfare. …
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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions
Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005
effects. Repeated voting on the basis of such incomplete economic views eventually leads to an economic crisis. Accordingly …
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Political Economy in a globalized world ; How politics, culture, and institutional incentives shape economic and political outcomes
Gehring, Kai - 2015
Diese kumulative Dissertation besteht aus drei Abschnitten. I. Geopolitics, Aid and Growth Wir untersuchen den Effekt kurzfristiger politischer Motive auf die Effektivität von Entwicklungshilfe. Dabei testen wir, ob der Effekt der Hilfe auf Wirtschaftswachstum reduziert wird durch den Anteil...
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Norms in bargaining : evidence from government formation in Spain
Fujiwara, Thomas; Sanz, Carlos
Spanish elections in which two parties tie in the number of seats. The party with slightly more general ... …
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A political economy perspective on persistent inequality, inflation, and redistribution
Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - 2010
In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective. We consider a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which agents vote over the desired inflation rate in each period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our...
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Costly Voting: Theoretical and Experimental Results on Commons Dilemmas in Spatial Committee Games
Wilson, Rick K.; Herzberg, Roberta; Elliott, Mark - 1993
"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
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On Committee Decision Making: A Game Theoretical Approach
Shenoy, Prakash P. - 1980
people who have to pick one option from a given set of alternatives. A well defined voting rule is specified by which the …
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Essays in the theory of voting power
Steffen, Frank - 2002
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Online consumer-to-consumer communication networks : an economic exploration of their formation and value
Harmsen-van Hout, Maria [Marjolein] Juliëtte Wilhelmina - 2009
Online Consumer-to-Consumer Communication Networks are characterized by informational and social benefits as well as time and effort costs for participants. Therefore, this dissertation takes an economic perspective on the network formation process as a determinant of value for consumers and...
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Simulation der langfristigen Entwicklung des europäischen Elektrizitätsmarktes
Paulun, Tobias - 2009
Mit der Liberalisierung des europäischen Marktes für elektrische Energie haben sich die Randbedingungen für alle in diesem Markt tätigen Unternehmen grundlegend verändert. Um das langfristige Ziel eines europäischen Binnenmarktes zu erreichen, sind erhebliche Eingriffe in die unter...
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