Aging societies face a fundamental challenge: How to represent future oriented policies in the politics of today? Voting age reforms and, more generally, policies that encourage the participation of the youth in politics are discussed as one solution. In this report, we study whether voting age...

This study empirically analyzes the alleged existence of political budget cycles in Indonesian local governments. Using panel data, this quantitative study concentrates on capital expenditures, grant expenditures, and social assistance expenditures in the election year and the year before the...

Voting seats at FOMC meetings rotate between Reserve Bank presidents on a yearly basis. Using detailed data on 488 FOMC meetings that took place between 1969 and 2021 and predetermined rotations of voting rights, we show that economic conditions in Reserve Bank presidents' districts affect...

This paper investigates opportunities and approaches for forecasting the future, with a particular focus on Nobel prizes. We review different approaches, including using the “wisdom of the crowd” through approaches such as prediction markets. We drill down on prediction markets, analyzing...

As right-wing populist politicians have found success across a wide range of countries in recent years, scholars have developed competing theories aimed at explaining the (strong) performance of these populists. We test the leading, competing frameworks, one focused on economic explanations and...

The income reporting behaviour of wealthy Indians is a critical public finance issue. It has remained under-researched due to the lack of data sources required for the purpose. In this article, we use a new and unique source of information to examine the income reporting behaviour of politicians...

Shares in start-ups are usually divided among founders, investors (either through direct-immediate shareholdings or future equities set through SAFE Agreements ), employees (usually through the employees and sweat bonus schemes), consultants, among others. Without shares structuring of some...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. Data were taken from the most recent Wave of the World Values Survey. Data were collected in 82 countries. Participants were asked how frequently...

Martin and Quinn used item response theory based on the Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo method to estimate justices’ locations on a one-dimensional scale. Their analysis has been received with interest and doubts by the legal community. This paper explores the Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm in...