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Political consequences of consumer debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2022

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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Political consequences of (consumer) debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2024 - This version: March 6, 2024

effects are not well understood. We ask if debt relief can influence elections in democracies. Our motivating exercise is the …

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Pandemics’ backlash : the effects of the 1918 influenza on health attitudes and behavior

Ochsner, Christian; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

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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Moral transgressions by groups : what drives individual voting behavior?

Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020

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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Moral transgressions by groups: what drives individual voting behavior?

Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020

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Climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption

Marini, Marco; Nocito, Samuel - 2025

We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile sales in rallyaffected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after FFF...

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Attributes : Selective Learning and Influence

Bardhi, Arjada - 2020

When different stages of the evaluation of a multi-attribute project rest with conflicting economic actors, which attributes are selectively explored and why? We provide a model of attribute sampling in which correlation across attributes is flexibly modeled through Gaussian processes. In the...

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Partisan Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation in the Media : Is News from Ideologically Uncongenial Sources More Suspicious?

Clayton, Katherine - 2020

In recent years, concerns about misinformation in the media have skyrocketed. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that various news outlets are disseminating "fake news" for political purposes. But when the information contained in mainstream media news reports provides no clear clues...

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Noisy Persuasion

Tsakas, Elias - 2020

We study the effect of noise due to exogenous information distortions in the context of Bayesianpersuasion. In particular, we ask whether more noise (a la Blackwell) is always harmful forthe information designer, i.e., the sender. We show that in general this is not the case. Weprovide a...

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Buying Voters with Uncertain Instrumental Preferences

Louis-Sidois, Charles - 2020

cheapest combination of bribes that guarantees the proposal's passing in different voting environments. We find that for both … expensive. In small committees, sequential voting increases cost while the opposite is true for large committees. On the other … hand, additional members and transparent voting rules lower the cost …

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