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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...

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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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More federal legislators lead to more resources for their constituencies : evidence from exogenous differences in seat allocations

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2019

Electoral district magnitude varies across German electoral constituencies and over legislative periods due to Germany’s electoral system. The number of seats in parliament per constituency is effectively random. This setting permits us to investigate exogenous variations in district magnitude...

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