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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how … politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741962
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Sensitivity of charitable giving to realized income changes: evidence from military bonuses and the combined federal campaign
Wojtaszek, Carl J.; Kofoed, Michael S. - 2021
The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800634
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Is the selfish life-cycle model more applicable in Japan and, if so, why? : a literature survey
Horioka, Charles - 2020
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291218
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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
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The Impact of Postal Voting on Participation: Evidence for Switzerland
Luechinger, Simon; Rosinger, Myra; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
order to re-engage voters. In this paper, we test whether the cost reductions with postal voting increase turnout. The … impact of postal voting on turnout, independent of time, issue and canton specific effects. The estimated average effect on …Many countries are forging ahead with convenient balloting methods, in particular electronic and postal voting, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390600
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Expected closeness or mobilisation: why do voters go to the polls? : Empirical results for Switzerland, 1981 - 1999
Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schulz, Tobias - 2005
which lead to these hypotheses are presented as well as the theory of expressive voting, and a survey of the available … theory of expressive voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272871
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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on … Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an … increase in the average quality of candidates competing at the electoral race produces a positive impact on turnout. To handle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344923
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The impact of postal voting on participation : evidence for Switzerland
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Rosinger, Myra (contributor) - 2006
order to re-engage voters. In this paper, we test whether the cost reductions with postal voting increase turnout. The … impact of postal voting on turnout, independent of time, issue and canton specific effects. The estimated average effect on …Many countries are forging ahead with convenient balloting methods, in particular electronic and postal voting, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003400414
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A note on detecting dividing lines in turnout : spatial dependence and heterogeneity in the 2012 US Presidential election
Fiorino, Nadia; Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2020
US voters have been moving apart in the last twenty years. This paper analyzes how their voting participation has … partitioned by looking at US counties in the 2012 Presidential elections. To tackle this question, we propose a methodology that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194197
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955