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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental studie of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay Auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2020

Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …

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Lobbyism in Germany : what do we know?

Polk, Andreas - 2017

Based on the two main channels of influence seeking, contribution payments and informational lobbying, we survey … empirical studies about lobbying in Germany and discusses the available data and research approaches. Based on two novel data … sets, we provide first insights towards further steps of empirical lobbying research. Given the overall lack of available …

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Who is the ultimate boss of legislators : voters, special interest groups or parties?

Stadelmann, David; Torrens, Gustavo - 2020

Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding on legislative proposals. Preferences of constituents, special interest groups and parties are directly...

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Optimal unemployment benefits in the presence of informal labor markets

González Rozada, Martín; Ruffo, Hernán - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 204-227

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Local electoral rules and political participation

Barone, Guglielmo; De Blasio, Guido - 2010

The paper investigates the effect of local electoral rules on the political participation of the residents, as reflected in voter turnout. It focuses on Italy, where municipal voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot system applies to municipalities with less...

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(Not) in my backyard? : the impact of citizen initiatives on housing supply in Germany

Arnold, Felix; Martin, Thorsten; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: February 27, 2015

Recently, the channels of citizen participation in Germany with regard to governmental processes are subject to change. Classical interaction between politicians and citizens still takes place. However, there are new tools for participation at hand as well. One interesting channel that attracted...

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Housing market and agglomeration of rent-seeking activities : implications for regional development

Lin, Eric S.; Peng, Shin Kun; Yux, Chia-Ming - 2014

Rent-seeking is defined as exercising privileges or expending resources in order to obtain uncompensated gain by redistributing the wealth of others without reciprocating any benefits back to society through wealth creation. This paper pioneers in analyzing the agglomeration of rent-seeking...

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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments

Stastna, Lenka - 2015

The paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the system and the difference GMM estimators to detect electoral manipulation in current and capital expenditures in electoral and pre-electoral years. Primarily, we estimate the...

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#EleNão : economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro

Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2020 - This version: March 1, 2020

After more than one decade of sustained economic growth, accompanied by falling poverty and inequality, Brazil has been hit by an economic recession starting in 2014. This paper investigates the consequences of this labor market shock for the victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018...

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Governance and Group Conflict

Kölle, Felix - 2020 - This version: January 2020

groups. Warfare, socio-political conflicts, political elections, lobbying, and R&D competitions are all examples of inter …

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