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Rotten parents and disciplined children: A politico-economic theory of public expenditure and debt

Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2008

future governments to provide public goods. We characterize the Markov Perfect Equilibrium of the dynamic voting game. If …

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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014 - This version: 10 May 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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Elections and government efficiency

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government...

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Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children : A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - 2007

Equilibrium of the dynamic voting game. If taxes do not distort labor supply, the economy progressively depletes its resources …

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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

the list of candidates because a candidate is punished more when he loses positions at the threshold of promising list … positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract …

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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013

In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … threshold. The dataset covers all 426 Hessian municipalities over the period 1989-2011. Our results suggest that the seat and …

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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...

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