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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how … politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …
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Studies on issues in political economy since the Global Financial Crisis
Jäger, Kai - 2016
study shows that elections tend to explain why democracies have acquired less foreign reserves than authoritarian regimes …
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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects
Schinke, Christoph - 2016
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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
. Chapter 3 examines whether the municipalities' voting behavior in state elections in a German state influenced the … the budget balance. The results show that stock-flow adjustments increased before elections. In Germany, stock …
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The rents of banking : a public choice approach to bank regulation
Buck, Florian Christopher - 2015
The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
Liessem, Verena - 2003
The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts...
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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions
Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005
effects. Repeated voting on the basis of such incomplete economic views eventually leads to an economic crisis. Accordingly …
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Essays on Budgetary Institutions: Theory and Evidence
Amoroso, Nicolas Emiliano - 2006
The dissertation offers an analysis of the role of budgetary institutions on the determination of fiscal outcomes. In the second chapter I provide a theoretical model that rationalizes differences in fiscal outcomes of two countries that are supposed to obey the same set of numerical constraints...
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Political Economy in a globalized world ; How politics, culture, and institutional incentives shape economic and political outcomes
Gehring, Kai - 2015
Diese kumulative Dissertation besteht aus drei Abschnitten. I. Geopolitics, Aid and Growth Wir untersuchen den Effekt kurzfristiger politischer Motive auf die Effektivität von Entwicklungshilfe. Dabei testen wir, ob der Effekt der Hilfe auf Wirtschaftswachstum reduziert wird durch den Anteil...
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