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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Experimentation vs. Career Concerns

Le Borgne, Eric - 2006

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between an incumbent officeholder and the electorate, where the officeholder is initially uninformed about her ability. If officeholder effort and ability interact in the production function that determines performance in office,...

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The Politics of Ambiguity

Alesina, Alberto F.; Cukierman, Alex - 2021

Politicians have generally two motives: they wish to hold office as long as possible and wish to implement their …, politicians may prefer to be ambiguous and "hide", at least up to a certain extent, their true preferences. This result holds for …

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The Politics of Ambiguity

Alesina, Alberto - 1987

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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? : Experimentation vs. Career Concerns

Lockwood, Ben - 2003

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between an incumbent officeholder and the electorate, where the officeholder is initially uninformed about her ability. If officeholder effort and ability interact in the ""production function"" that determines performance in office,...

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Democracy, financial openness, and global carbon dioxide emissions : heterogeneity across existing emission levels

You, Wan-hai; Zhu, Huiming; Yu, Keming; Peng, Cheng - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 189-207

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The environmental Kuznets curve : a semiparametric approach with cross-sectional dependence

Soberon, Alexandra; D’Hers, Irene - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 11/292, pp. 1-23

particular, we propose to test the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for a panel of 24 OECD countries and 32 non … semiparametric panel data model. Our results corroborates that the nature and validity of the income–pollution relationship based on …

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