Voter participation rates vary widely across the 50 states. This empirical study seeks, within the context of a broadened version of the ‘rational voter model,’ to identify determinants of this interstate variation. Using the 2004 general election as the study period, it is found that the...

This study investigates the impact of federal government budget deficits on nominal long-term interest rates during the post-Bretton Woods era in the United States. The analysis conducts cointegration and Granger_causality tests within an open-economy loanable funds framework The empirical...