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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
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 efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and instrumental … variable estimations in a large balanced panel of around 2,000 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria. Cost efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663286
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Essays in international economics and finance
Reidel, Demian Axel - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965691
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Cognitive biases, downside risk shocks, and stock expected returns
Li, Si; He, Fangyi; Shi, Fangquan - In: The North American journal of economics and finance : a … 68 (2023), pp. 1-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485480
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Risks at Work : The Demand and Supply Sides of Government Redistribution
Cusack, Thomas R.; Iversen, Torben; Rehm, Philipp - 2007
To understand how the welfare state adjusts to economic shocks it is important to explain both the genesis of popular preferences and the institutional incentives of governments to respond to these preferences. This paper attempts to do both, using a general theoretical framework and detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027617
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Do hospitals respond to rivals' quality and efficiency? : a spatial econometrics approach
Longo, Francesco; Siciliani, Luigi; Gravelle, Hugh; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631769
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures: regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; de Mello, João M. P.; Firpo, Sergio - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a … achieves a majority of the votes. We show that the possibility of runoff increases political competition. We use the … discontinuity as a source of exogenous variation to infer causality from political competition to fiscal policy. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275835
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Wealth and Politics: Studies on Inter Vivos Transfers and Partisan Effects
Schinke, Christoph - 2016
The dissertation elaborates on topics that are related to (i) intergenerational transfers of wealth and to (ii) how government ideology and elections influence outcomes (income inequality and budget consolidation) and political processes (fiscal planning and policy advice). The dissertation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698357
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Ideology and fiscal policy: quasi-experimental evidence from the German States
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2012
Is government ideology important for fiscal policy? I study this question with data from all German States over the period 1975-2005. To identify the effect of ideology, I rely on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find that left-wing state governments spend more than state governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311705
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures : regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; Mello, Joao M. P. de; Firpo, Sérgio … - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a … achieves a majority of the votes. We show that the possibility of runoff increases political competition. We use the … discontinuity as a source of exogenous variation to infer causality from political competition to fiscal policy. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931974
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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