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Behn, Markus; Haselmann, Rainer; Kick, Thomas; Vig, Vikrant - 2016

distress is 30 percent lower in the year directly preceding an election. Using the electoral cycle as an instrument, we show …

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Information on the ballot, voter satisfaction and election turnout

Sajons, Christoph - 2016

unknown and party-identification cannot be used to distinguish them. This case often appears in election systems with either … experimental exit-poll of voters at local elections in two German states in 2014 in which respondents faced a hypothetical election … translates directly into a greater willingness to take part in the hypothetical election (“turnout”), especially for individuals …

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Economic policies and elections : a principal-agent point of view

Caleiro, António - 2004

One of the most crucial lessons to be taken from the literature on electoral business cycles is that the short- run electorally-induced fluctuations prejudice the long-run welfare. Since the very first studies on the matter, some authors offered suggestions as to what should be done against this...

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On some of the consequences of being possible to call early elections

Caleiro, António - 2005

This note presents some of the consequences due to the possibility of having early elections. First of all, elections, whether exogenously or endogenously determined, are relevant to challenge the well known neutrality principle of economic policies under rational expectations. Furthermore, in...

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Electoral cycles in MPs' salaries : evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

Members of parliament (MPs) often decide on their own salaries. Voters dislike self-serving politicians, and politicians are keen to gratify their voters. In line with the political business cycle theories, politicians thus may well delay deciding on increases in salaries until after elections....

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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...

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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016

Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...

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Does political uncertainty influence firm owners' business perceptions?

Riem, Marina - 2016

development of business. I use state election months as indicators of times of high political uncertainty. The results show that … optimistic prior to state elections because politicians promised individual policies to gratify the firms' needs during election … times. Firms might be disappointed after elections as the promises made during election campaigns by politicians turn out to …

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Local political budget cycles in a federation : evidence from West German cities

Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2015

elections result in pre-election manipulation of the local finances of moderate size. Before both types of elections, we observe …

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Impact of internal migration on political participation in turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-14

The Impact of population mobility on provincial turnout rates in the 2011 Turkish parliamentary election is studied …

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