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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], Protection for sale, American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
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Political business cycles, bank pricing behaviour and financial inclusion in Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Ganiyu; Turkson, Festus Ebo - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-22
loan price increases in pre-election and election years. Building on this result and employing various specifications of … financial inclusion, the second results suggest that, high bank loan prices in election years tend to increase financial access … more, compared to non-election years, and that, high deposit price reduces financial usage but increases financial access …
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Compulsory voting and political participation: Empirical evidence from Austria
Gaebler, Stefanie; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2019
We examine whether compulsory voting influences political participation as measured by voter turnout, invalid voting, political interest, confidence in parliament, and party membership. In Austria, some states temporarily introduced compulsory voting in national elections. We investigate border...
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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2008
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from … points in time. We can thereby separate an election effect from other time effects. Our results indicate that there is a … statistically significant election year effect in local public employment, a production factor that is highly visi¬ble in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321590
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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2008
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from … in time. We can thereby separate an election effect from other time effects. Our results indicate that there is a … statistically significant election year effect in local public employment, a production factor that is highly visible in the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317944
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The Delegation Perspective on Representative Democracy
Hain, Roland; Mitra, Manipushpak - 2002
Why do political constituencies delegate decision power to representative assemblies? And how is the size of such assemblies determined? We analyze these questions of constitutional design in a model with voters learning their preferred alternative only after engaging in costly information...
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Empirical Studies on Public Debt and Fiscal Transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698353
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Vote-Buying and Growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753158
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The Larger the Better? The Role of Interest-Group Size in Legislative Lobbying
Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the opposing lobby. Hence, a larger lobby size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753190
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A theory of political entrenchment
Saint-Paul, Gilles; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2012
We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … theory for constitutionally legislated term limits is also discussed. The theory sheds light on why left-wing parties or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282469