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Accounting for the visiting economist syndrome : reflections on the emergence of a prevalent phenomenon
Lepenies, Philipp - In: International journal of social economics 42 (2015) 12, pp. 1214-1226
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The intellectual contribution of Condorcet to the founding of the US Republic 1785 - 1800
Schofield, Norman - In: Social choice and welfare 25 (2005) 2/3, pp. 303-318
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Communication and decision-making by central bank committees: different strategies, same effectiveness?
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal Reserve has been pursuing a rather individualistic communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604534
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How should central banks communicate?
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
England and the ECB since 1999, we find that communicating the diversity of views among committee members about monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604603
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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - 2011
informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330258
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Monetary Policy Committees: meetings and outcomes
Berk, Jan Marc; Bierut, Beata K. - 2009
. In this paper we show analytically how different arrangements could affect the voting behaviour of individual MPC members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605116
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US-Präsidentschaftswahlen 2016: Der Einfluss soziodemografischer, ökonomischer und kultureller Faktoren auf Trumps Wahlerfolg
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Munder, Alexander; Steger, … - 2019
Der bereits erstaunliche Erfolg von Donald Trump als Präsidentschaftskandidat der Republikaner wurde durch seinen völlig überraschenden Sieg gegen Hillary Clinton 2016 noch einmal übertroffen. Entsprechend groß sind die Bemühungen theoretisch und empirisch diese Wahlentscheidung der...
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The Impact Of Voter Initiatives On Economic Activity
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Weerapana, Akila - 2001
Recent studies have claimed that states with initiatives systems of legislation use this more direct from of democracy to improve productive resource allocation. This paper compares the economic performance of states with initiatives to states that do not have initiatives. We first construct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263259
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Rational choice and voter turnout: Evidence from union representation elections
Farber, Henry S. - 2010
receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin … consideration of the likelihood that they will be pivotal. Among the remainder, the probability of voting is related to variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269935
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What drives US immigration policy? Evidence from congressional roll call votes
Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2011
this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …
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