. 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 … politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …

predominantly observable in state elections, though attacks that receive high media coverage increase the AfD vote share in Federal … elections. These patterns hold even though most attacks are motivated by right-wing causes and target migrants. Using a …

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This … is not the case in a closed committee where costs and benefits of insincere voting only arise when a voter is pivotal. …