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Rejecting Renewables : The Socio-Technical Impediments to Renewable Electricity in the United States
Sovacool, Benjamin K. - 2019
electricity generation in the United States? As an answer, this article demonstrates that the impediments to renewable power are … electricity supply and use. Extensive interviews of public utility commissioners, utility managers, system operators … ignore renewable power systems because they are not given accurate price signals about electricity consumption. Intentional …
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Was Obama Elected by the Internet? Broadband Diffusion and Voters' Behavior in US Presidential Elections
Larcinese, Valentino; Miner, Luke - 2021
What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that...
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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
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Electoral cycles, partisan effects and U.S. naturalization policies
Drometer, Marcus; Méango, Romuald - 2017
Using a panel of naturalizations in U.S. states from 1965 to 2012, we empirically analyze the impact of elections on naturalization policy. Our results indicate that naturalization policy is (partly) driven by national elections: there are more naturalizations in presidential election years and...
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Partisan bias in inflation expectations
Bachmann, Oliver; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2019
We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...
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Politics in the Facebook era evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020
Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...
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Partisan bias in inflation expectations
Bachmann, Oliver; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2019
We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119953
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Was Obama elected by the internet? : broadband diffusion and voters' behavior in US presidential elections
Larcinese, Valentino; Miner, Luke - 2018
What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794226
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Do voters or politicians choose the outcomes of elections? : evidence from high-stakes U.S. state legislative elections
Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay - 2017
We study whether political parties exert precise control over the outcomes of legislative elections. We test for discontinuities in two outcomes that, in the absence of precise control, should be smooth at the threshold that determines control of the legislature: the identity of the party that...
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Towards Effective Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance : H1N1 in the United States 1976 and Mexico 2009
Ear, Sophal - 2012
The comparison of Mexico’s 2009 A/H1N1 outbreak with the U.S. H1N1 outbreak of 1976 provides notable observations — based on the strengths and weaknesses of each country’s response — that can be used as a starting point of discussion for the design of effective Emerging Infectious...
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