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Hansen, Emanuel - 2014

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Why do electors support corrupt politicians?

Ionescu, Luminiţa - In: Economics, management and financial markets 10 (2015) 4, pp. 61-68

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Lacking Information or Condoning Corruption : When Will Voters Support Corrupt Politicians?

Winters, Matthew S. - 2015

individual-level attitudes, we present two hypotheses for why citizens might be willing to cast ballots for corrupt politicians … corruption when politicians otherwise perform well in office, delivering public goods to their constituents. We test these … express a willingness punish corrupt politicians, regardless of politician performance. High income voters form a partial …

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IMF's assistance : devil's kiss or guardian angel?

Brandes, Julia (contributor); Schüle, Tobias (contributor) - 2007

This paper contributes to the debate on the efficacy of IMF's catalytic finance in preventing financial crises. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private creditors and that several interventions in sequence may...

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Price Controls and Electoral Cycles

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2006

This paper studies the interactions between electoral considerations and the imposition of price controls by opportunistic policymakers. The analysis shows that a policy cycle emerges in which price controls are imposed in periods leading to the election, and removed immediately afterwards. The...

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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees

Jung, Alexander - 2011

This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper tests for heterogeneity among committee members in three...

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