This article's aim consists in building and estimating a model which explains and forecasts the outcomes of the French legislative elections by department. This model, which constitutes the first attempt for such a geographical level, emphasises the role of the economic and political factors in...

This article investigates the effect of the intensity of political competition on the tax choices by local governments. More precisely, we study whether local governments determine their tax rates more in a Leviathan way, exploiting a low political competition to vote high tax rates, or in a...

La création en février 2005 d'une commission d'enquête de l'Assemblée Nationale sur " L'évolution de la fiscalité locale, de ses conséquences sur le pouvoir d'achat des ménages et sur la vie des entreprises, ainsi que sur les conditions d'une responsabilité mieux assumée des décideurs...

This article aims at analysing simultaneously three potential determinants of local tax setting by the French departments: the tax rate choices by the neighbouring departments, demographic and economic local features, and some political determinants, especially the degree of political...

This article's aim consists in building and estimating a model which explains and forecasts the outcomes of the French legislative elections by department. This model, which constitutes the first attempt for such a geographical level, emphasises the role of the economic and political factors in...

This article's aim consists in building and estimating a model which explains and forecasts the outcomes of the French legislative elections by department. This model, which constitutes the first attempt for such a geographical level, emphasises the role of the economic and political factors in...

This article investigates the effect of the intensity of political competition on the tax choices by local governments. More precisely, we study whether local governments determine their tax rates more in a Leviathan way, exploiting a low political competition to vote high tax rates, or in a...

Cet article se présente comme une extension du champ de l'économie du vote et de ses méthodes au domaine encore inexploré des élections professionnelles. A partir d'une analyse des suffrages obtenus par la FNSEA aux élections des Chambres d'Agriculture départementales de 1995 à 2001,...

[eng] The rise in long term real interest rates that occured in the eighties is often ascribed to either a decline in the ex-ante saving rate, both private and public, or to a surge in ex-ante investment demand, due to a presumed rise in profitability. If however monetary authorities are not...