election. To ensure that raters did not recognize the candidates, we relied heavily on young subjects from Australia and New …

The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions … before elections to increase their chances of eelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of pre-election …

avoid tax increases in election years. These data contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2 … implemented tax changes relative to non-election years. We find some evidence that politicians are most likely to enact tax …We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians …

avoid tax increases in election years. Our data provide three items of information: (1) when state politicians enact tax …We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians … laws, (2) when state politicians implement tax laws on consumers and firms, and (3) the size of tax changes. Using a …

practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these …In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points …

political selection. Overall, we conclude that voters select more competent politicians when they face uncertainty about the …

the mayoral election in March 2020, the Bavarian state government announced an official state of emergency with measures …

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and … winner of the general election. …

We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the … an election is equal to 35,000€, or 85 percent of the annual labor and social security earnings for the average candidate … years after the election. Net of compensations for service, this effect is negative during the first ten years after the …