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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case
Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024
This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583811
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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2009
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266018
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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009
elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269668
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273815
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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], Protection for sale, American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274511
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Campaigns, Political Mobility, and Communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2011
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753207
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Policy Persistence and Rent Extraction
Friedrich, Silke - 2011
The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growthenhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed thatthe nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis ofthis paper is that a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312082
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Policy persistence and rent extraction
Friedrich, Silke - 2013
The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766682
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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2011 - This version: January 2011
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236280
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Money talks to autocrats, bullets whistle to democrats : political influence under different regimes
Choon, Thea How; Marcolongo, Giovanna; Pinotti, Paolo - 2024
dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on … elections, whereas in autocracies bribes increase after elections. These findings align with a theoretical framework in which … pressure groups use political violence to sway democratic elections in favor of their preferred candidates, while resorting to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057721