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institutional change in a context of technological innovation. When decisions are made through majority voting, the vote on … technology choice is used to influence the later vote on the sharing rule. We show how this dynamic voting generates a systematic … leads the firm to an institutional trap whereby majority voting and inefficient technology choice reinforce each other …
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This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of...
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persistence over time in voting decisions. I present a new theory that suggests that the excess persistence in voting decisions is … due to habit formation, which means that utility is a function of previous voting decisions. The theory is tested using … implications and reject an alternative hypothesis presented by previous voting theories. Furthermore, the structural model is used …
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This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between an incumbent officeholder and the electorate, where the officeholder is initially uninformed about her ability. If officeholder effort and ability interact in the "production function" that determines performance in office,...
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