paper uncovers the role of electoral incentives. Using a close election regression discontinuity design in Brazil, we first … stay at home in the weeks surrounding the election. We then show that these results can be rationalized by a simple … political agency model where politicians seek re-election and where voters assess female and male politicians' actions …

in open-list local council elections (1997-2021) in the German state of Hesse. We exploit the March 2021 election one …

voting costs. Election administrators in Munich control precinct size and recruit new polling places to improve voting …

Election in 2009. We conducted a daily web survey for seven days before and after the election, obtaining1068 responses … significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …

election affects their performance. This study uses 3,716 firm-year observations for firms listed on the Indonesian Stock … parties involved in the presidential election in the past three elections. Due to the complexity of the data collection, this … excellent financial performance of SOEs disappears around the election period. It indicates that being a board member of state …

electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics …