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An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …
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A case for standard theory?
Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015
Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...
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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388188
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The Political Economy of Cordon Tolls
De Borger, Bruno; Russo, Antonio - 2015
owners of land in different locations. Assuming majority voting we show that the equilibrium toll is below the socially …
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The Political Economy of Cordon Tolls
Russo, Antonio; De Borger, Bruno - 2015
redistributes welfare not only from renters to landowners, but also within landowners. We show that the majority voting equilibrium …
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Reciprocity and voting
Hahn, Volker - 2004
parties are not motivated by reciprocity. We show that reciprocity may have dramatic consequences for models of voting …
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Local Economies and General Elections
Elinder, Mikael - 2006
This paper estimates voters' response to municipality and regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage...
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Voting by monetary policy committees: Evidence from the CEE inflation-targeting countries
Jung, Alexander; Kiss, Gergely - 2012
) countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 2005-2010. It employs (individual) voting records of the …-time information on economic and financial indicators and voting records. Recent evidence for the monetary policy committees (MPCs) of …
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Delegation or Voting
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2002
qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …
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