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Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany

Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023

Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...

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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case

Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

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How do voters respond to information? Evidence from a randomized campaign

Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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Bounded rationality and voting decisions exploring a 160-year period

Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2012

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848-2009), we investigate whether …

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Tax Salience, Voting, and Deliberation

Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2009

of tax shifting in the market. We show that tax salience biases consumers' voting on tax regimes, and that experience is …

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The Political Economy of Corruption and and the Role of Financial Institutions

Hainz, Christa; Boerner, Kira - 2005

probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead more corruption as more voters are part of the …

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Media capture in a democracy: the role of wealth concentration

Corneo, Giacomo - 2005

current paper develops a voting model where citizens are uncertain about the welfare eþects induced by alternative policy … groups in order to in.uence the public opinion. In the case of voting over the level of a productivity-enhancing public bad …

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Skills, social mobility, and the support for the welfare state

Rincke, Johannes; Schwager, Robert - 2005

Many welfare schemes discourage low skilled individuals from working. In the same time, there is widespread support for the welfare state among the highly educated. We suggest a model which explains these seemingly contrasting observations. In our approach, intergenerational social mobility is...

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How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?

Berger, Helge; Müller, Till - 2004

apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to … passive reaction to idiosyncratic national economic shocks. A perfect match between economic size and voting rights is rarely …

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