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Government popularity and the economy : first evidence from German microdata
Enkelmann, Sören - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 46 (2014) 3, pp. 999-1017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344367
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Voters prefer more qualified mayors, but does it matter for public finances? : evidence for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Thomasius, Sebastian - 2012
This paper studies the importance of politician's qualification, in terms of education and experience, for fiscal outcomes. The analysis is based on a large panel for 2,031 German municipalities for which we have collected information on municipal budgets as well as the election results and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688757
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Outside earnings, absence, and activity : evidence from German parliamentarians
Arnold, Felix; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of … contributions, interpellations, and group initiatives. We propose that the results for Germany do not corroborate evidence on other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383227
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Concerns about the Euro and happiness in Germany during times of crisis
Chadi, Adrian - 2015
unhappiness among concerned citizens to the actual votes for Germany's first major anti-euro party in the subsequent federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498374
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Voters Prefer More Qualified Mayors, But Does It Matter for Public Finances? Evidence for Germany
Freier, Ronny - 2013
This paper studies the importance of politician's qualification, in terms of education and experience, for fiscal outcomes. The analysis is based on a large panel for 2,031 German municipalities for which we have collected information on municipal budgets as well as the election results and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088544
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Outside Earnings, Absence, and Activity : Evidence from German Parliamentarians
Arnold, Felix - 2014
We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of … contributions, interpellations, and group initiatives. We propose that the results for Germany do not corroborate evidence on other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049213
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
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Sharing competences : the impact of local institutional settings on voter turnout
Michelsen, Claus; Bönisch, Peter; Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. - 2010
local elections in Germany, held in 2003 and 2004. Overall, we analyze aggregate voter turnout of 1661 municipalities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127460
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301926
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Political fragmentation and fiscal policy : evidence from German municipalities
Bernard, René - 2017
The government fragmentation hypothesis (GFH) states that coalition governments spend more than single-party governments due to an underlying common pool problem. Using a large panel data set on 604 local governments in the German state of Baden-Württemberg for the 1994-2014 period, I test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730078