Public disclosure laws on politicians' outside income aim to enhance electoral accountability, but their effects remain …

linking politicians and election candidates to the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political … us to distinguish between mechanisms driving the effects over the politician’s career. …

linking politicians and election candidates to the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political … us to distinguish between mechanisms driving the effects over the politician’s career. …

may contribute to this trend — such as generalized disaffection with politics — we focus on politicians' salaries, one of …. To this end, we examine a large-scale reform that significantly increased local politicians’ salaries using the newly …

We evaluate the impact of a recent reform that sharply increased the salaries of Italian local politicians on electoral …

We document an overrepresentation of politicians on corporate boards using data for Swiss federal legislators in 1931 … directorship and no effect on the number of directorships. Our results imply that the prevalence of politicians on corporate boards … stems from a positive selection of talented individuals in both business and politics, rather than firms hiring politicians …

economic decision-making – is important in politics. We show that politicians ‘gamble for re-election’ in the context of a …