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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364725
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
-wing ?Republikaner? party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262441
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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, and no evidence that the Internet systematically benefits single parties … Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282064
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E-lections: Voting behavior and the internet
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, and no evidence that the Internet systematically benefits single parties … Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282266
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland : das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
-wing "Republikaner" party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339684
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The political economy of bank bailouts
Behn, Markus; Haselmann, Rainer; Kick, Thomas; Vig, Vikrant - 2016
In this paper, we examine how the institutional design affects the outcome of bank bailout decisions. In the German savings bank sector, distress events can be resolved by local politicians or a state-level association. We show that decisions by local politicians with close links to the bank are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456861
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Corporate investment decisions under political uncertainty
Riem, Marina - 2016
when state elections occurred relative to the average investment ratio in years with no state election. Firms however seem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539894
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Does political uncertainty influence firm owners' business perceptions?
Riem, Marina - 2016
firm owners are optimistic regarding their expected business development before state elections. After state elections … optimistic prior to state elections because politicians promised individual policies to gratify the firms' needs during election … times. Firms might be disappointed after elections as the promises made during election campaigns by politicians turn out to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542240
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The political economy of bank bailouts
Behn, Markus; Haselmann, Rainer; Kick, Thomas; Vig, Vikrant - 2015
In this paper, we examine how the institutional design affects the outcome of bank bailout decisions. In the German savings bank sector, distress events can be resolved by local politicians or a state-level association. We show that decisions by local politicians with close links to the bank are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499596