Gersbach, Hans; Müller, Markus - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2006
threshold contracts stipulate a price level on the political information market that a politician must reach to have the right …. To solve this problem, we propose a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold … contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while …