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Policy Responses to Balance-of-Payments Crises : The Role of Elections

Broz, J. Lawrence - 2016

available to election-minded politicians. We construct a new dataset that documents patterns in the use of these five policy …

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Contributing or Free-Riding? A Theory of Endogenous Lobby Formation

Konishi, Hideo; Furusawa, Taiji - 2008

We consider a two-stage public goods provision game: In the first stage, players simultaneously decide if they will join a contribution group or not. In the second stage, players in the contribution group simultaneously offer contribution schemes in order to influence the government's choice on...

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Trade shocks, labour markets and elections in the first globalisation

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalisation (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...

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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648044

Political selection and the concentration of political power

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015

concentration of power in the hands of the election winner is optimal if and only if the conflict of interest is small. …

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Electoral cycles in public expenditures : evidence from Czech local governments

Stastna, Lenka - 2015

This paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the system GMM and the difference GMM estimators to identify distortion in current and capital expenditures per capita in electoral and pre-electoral years, while focusing on various...

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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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Elections and the timing of devaluations

Stein, Ernesto; Streb, Jorge M. - 1999

the pre-election period so as to increase the electoral chances of the party in office. By concentrating on closed …

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Transparency in parliamentary voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While publicly observable at the time of the vote,...

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Mass media, instrumental information, and electoral accountability

Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - 2016

Journalism is widely believed to be crucial for holding elected officials accountable. At the same time economic theory has a hard time providing an instrumental explanation for the existence of "accountability journalism". According to the common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should not...

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