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Elections and the Timing of Devaluations
Stein, Ernesto H.; Streb, Jorge M. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
economies, previous political cycle models had overlooked the influence of elections on the behavior of exchange rates. Voter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944007
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945274
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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy: The case of Ghana, 1996-2004.
André, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - 2011
The body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers and that public funds target ruling party supporters and swing districts. Our results, however,...
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Pakistan, politics and political business cycles
Batool, Irem; Sieg, Gernot - 2009
growth is systematically affected by the timing of elections. We cover the period from 1973-2009. Our results can be … elections, perhaps as a result of politically motivated employment schemes. 2. In ation tend to be lower in preelection periods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307169
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The Politicization of Selfie Journalism: An Empirical Study to Parliamentary Elections
Veglis, Andreas; Maniou, Theodora; Panagiotidis, Kosmas - In: International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 8 (2017) 2, pp. 1-16
quantitative and qualitative research, the study analyses these characteristics in the period of parliamentary elections of 2016 in …
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Crime, incentives and political effort: A model and empirical application for India
Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, Florian; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2015
We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament (MPs) when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituencies to assess the effects of their having a criminal background. Political representatives with criminal backgrounds are considered a great problem in many...
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Elections and the public expenditure mix
Barreira, Ana; Baleiras, Rui Nuno - 2004
The paper presents an intertemporal utility model that determines the effects of elections on the public expenditure … elections: the incumbent’s concern with her future utility in the case of defeat. We provide data to suggest that both central …. Keywords: Political Budget Cycles, Public Expenditure, Elections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318881
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International migration of couples
Junge, Marin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
We develop a theoretical model regarding the migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases with the income of the primary earner, whereas the income of the secondary earner may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374996
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and … experimental elections confirms both predictions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374997
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An Economic Analysis of Voting in Sweden
Jordahl, Henrik - 2001
This paper presents a theoretical model of rational retrospective voting, which is tested empirically on pooled cross-sectional and panel data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and unemployment. Compared with the cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321778