Voting is a crucial phenomenon in a democratic nation. While making decisions on whom to vote, voters take many indicators into consideration. They sometimes change their voting decision than the previous election in the hope that their economic condition will be better off. Here I investigate...

It is possible that the May 2022 Philippine national elections will need to be conducted under pandemic conditions, so the country must prepare at the earliest possible time. International experience suggests it is possible to hold successful elections even with the risks posed by COVID-19, and...

This paper examines the partisan patterns in state supreme court elections for the period 1981 through 2020. It shows that those elections have become more partisan across all election formats: partisan, semi-partisan, nonpartisan, and retention. The greatest change has been in nonpartisan...

This study investigates whether pre-meeting vote disclosures by large asset owners can amplify the influence of their votes at shareholders' meetings. We utilize the newly adopted 2019 rule that mandates Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) to disclose voting decisions before the...

We study sequential voting buying games in which an outsider, called the principal, sequentially attempts to capture committee members with opposite preferences before they make a decision through generalized majority voting. By characterizing the equilibria, we show that the amount of bribes...

We develop an empirical model of overlapping ownership conduct. The model (i) links firm conduct parameters to deep parameters of the firm's process of shareholder preference aggregation through voting; (ii) can cope with ownership settings involving both intra- and inter-industry overlapping...

We examine consumption patterns around the time of democratic elections to investigate the possibility of vote-buying. Specifically, we combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer expenditure and employment surveys (conducted by NSSO) over the period...

Political uncertainty is a risk that affects the decision-making processes of firms. Therefore, it is crucial to understand what causes political uncertainty and include appropriate indicators in a risk management system. This study introduces election polls as a new determinant of political...

In a large-scale randomized experiment implemented with Kenya’s Electoral Commission in 2013, text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted electoral participation. However, the messages also decreased trust in electoral institutions after the election. This decrease was stronger for...

Information affecting a candidate’s reputation might have significant consequences for elections and policy making. How does this information affect candidates’ behavior? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that politicians respond to...