. In particular, we discuss the joint impact of trade openness and political uncertainty. Our theory predicts that the …. Political uncertainty has a positive effect on environmental policy as it reduces lobbying efforts. Applying our model to a … unique data set of primarily developing countries, the empirical findings support the theory and are robust under alterntive …

drop in turnout is only transitory as mail-in votes balance the decline in in-person votes in subsequent elections. This …-in ballots. Some inattentive voters forgo voting today but turn to mail-in voting in ensuing elections. Our results are in line …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …

. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … investment ratio in years with no state election. Firms however seem to anticipate electoral uncertainty already when making … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting … the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …). In presidential elections, counties with greater trade exposure shifted towards the Republican candidate (a rightward …

distress is 30 percent lower in the year directly preceding an election. Using the electoral cycle as an instrument, we show …