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Essays on the Behavior of Firms and Politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how …
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Corporate investment decisions under political uncertainty
Riem, Marina - 2016
I investigate how political uncertainty influences corporate investment decisions employinga unique panel dataset of German manufacturing firms. I use data on firms’ self-reportedinvestment realizations, plans and revisions. The firm-specific user cost of capital capturesthe current...
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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
efficiencyenhancing effect of elections at given institutional conditions. …
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption: International empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is … especially pronounced before early elections (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to … investigate why perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. …
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Electoral Cycles in Perceived Corruption: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections … (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to investigate why perceived corruption in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957209
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Attitudes Towards Globalization Barriers and Implications for Voting: Evidence from Sweden
Karakas, Leyla D.; Kim, Nam Seok; Mitra, Devashish - 2021
Using six waves of the Swedish National Election Studies (SNES) survey data, we investigate the determinants of attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In line with the existing results in the literature, we find...
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The Effect of Disaggregate Information on the Expectation Formation of Firms
Buchheim, Lukas; Link, Sebastian - 2017
This paper studies a new aspect of firms’ expectation formation by asking whether expectations primarily reflect aggregate, industry-wide information (e.g., industry trends) or disaggregate information (e.g., firm-specific information). First, we show that disaggregate information is strongly...
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The partisan effects of voter turnout: How conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … contribution is the comparison of municipal and state elections. …
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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty
Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004
We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...
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