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Local council members' view on inter-municipal cooperation : does office-related self interest matter?
Bergholz, Christian; Bischoff, Ivo - 2016 - This version: December 20, 2016
We analyze data from a survey among local council members in 59 German municipali-ties. We ask council members whether their home municipality should cooperate with neigh-boring municipalities in the provision of public services like childcare or road maintenance. Their answers are clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575010
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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? : evidence from connections to the German federal parliament
Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024
measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535705
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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? : evidence from connections to the German Federal Parliament
Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024
measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535936
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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475960
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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from Germany
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479070
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Identifying the Effects of Place-Based Policies - Causal Evidence from Germany
Dettmann, Eva - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988971
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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317144
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2018
This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927102
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Instrumental variables and causal mechanisms : unpacking the effect of trade on workers and voters
Dippel, Christian; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2017
This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987-2009, we find that import exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781026
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Politicians' outside earnings and political competition
Becker, Johannes (contributor); Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings. -- Political competition ; outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793484