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We study consumer debt relief as a tool of distributive politics and ask if debt relief can influence elections. We … can translate into political power in polities with de jure competitive elections but with de facto weak accountability. …
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effects are not well understood. We ask if debt relief can influence elections in democracies. Our motivating exercise is the …
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We study the effects of the largest adverse health shock in modern medicine - the 1918 influenza pandemic - on subsequent shifts in health-related attitudes and behavior and future-oriented policies. Our analysis builds upon self-digitized, individual-level death-register excerpts, vaccination...
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different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of … voting behavior. …
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different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of … voting behavior. …
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national elections from 1985 through 2005 in the EU-15 countries. Consumer confidence is measured monthly using identical … months before the date of national elections and falls subsequently, a pattern that differs depending on whether the …
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voting over plausible outcomes of quality and price. However, if there are three or more consumers with different preferences … always be a majority in favor of change (paradox of voting). A viable solution to approach the optimum product mix can be the …
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This article contrasts the secular and Catholic literature on consumerism and its implications for liberty. Three specific questions are considered: Is consumerism harmful to liberty? Is it a necessary consequence of a market economy? Who is responsible for consumerism? The article shows that...
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The debate over the regulation of consumer marketing information so far has focused on what form any such regulation should take. Despite the lack of consensus on the basic framework for allocating rights to use consumer marketing information, there seems to be broad consensus that any...
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We present a model of persuasive signalling, where a privately-informed sender selects from a class of signals with different precision to persuade a receiver to take one of two actions. The sender's information could be either favourable or unfavourable. The receiver observes both the sender's...
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