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Can one single political leader influence macroeconomic expectations on a global scale? We design a large-scale survey experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the effect...
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educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
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educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
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performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfareenhancing reforms. …
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educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
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selected group of Dutch politicians, we find that politicians conform their expressed opinion about policy experiments to what …
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What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where … local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and … concern for reputation, our model predicts that politicians' effort is increasing in their reputation concern. With …
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We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
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