political agency model where politicians seek re-election and where voters assess female and male politicians' actions … 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 …

politicians ascent to higher office, if it entails stricter scrutiny that may reduce favoritism. Around close Congress elections …, we find RDD-based evidence of this adverse effect that a politicians win reduces his former classmates firms stock value … effect. It further varies with politicians power, firm size and governance, and connection strength, and diminishes as a …

The beauty premium in politics shows that attractive politicians are more likely to get elected to office than less … attractive politicians, but little is known about whether beauty also shapes the behavior of members of parliament (MPs) once in …

have a down-up characteristic. We show that voters cannot motivate politicians to invest in down-up policies by their … macroeconomic developments. Finally, we comment on practical issues when such contracts are used in election races …

politicians' types (model uncertainty) as well as each individual politician's type. Such model uncertainty allows political trust … uncertainty substantially increases the probability of politicians choosing the bad policy. Furthermore, it generates self …

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

When reelection is uncertain, the election mechanism may provide insufficient incentives to politicians to implement …