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Equilibrium tax rates under ex-ante heterogeneity and income-dependent voting
Chang, Bo Hyun; Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-bin - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 22 (2022) 2, pp. 547-573
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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Changes in voter bias in the associated press college football poll
Coleman, B. J.; Gallo, Andrés Alberto; Mason, Paul M.; … - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 11, pp. 1045-1048
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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case
Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024
This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …
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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...
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Voice of the diaspora: An analysis of migrant voting behavior
Fidrmuc, Jan; Doyle, Orla - 2005
home countries. The political preferences of migrants as manifested by their voting behavior are strikingly different from … those of their home-country counterparts. In addition, there are important differences in voting patterns across migrants … living in different countries. We examine three explanations of migrant voting behavior: adaptive learning; economic self …
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Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect in voting experiments? First results and methodological limits
Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - 2008
In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …
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Reciprocity and voting
Hahn, Volker - 2004
parties are not motivated by reciprocity. We show that reciprocity may have dramatic consequences for models of voting …
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