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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent’s campaign but...

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Does polarization of opinions lead to polarization of platforms? the case of correlation neglect

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we question the common wisdom that more polarized voters’ opinions imply larger policy polarization. We … analyze a voting model in which the source of the polarization in voters’ opinions is “correlation neglect”, that is, voters … neglect the correlation in their information sources. Our main result shows that such polarization in opinions does not …

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Delegation and Polarization of Platforms in Political Competition

Faulí-Oller, Ramon; Ok, Efe A; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

variety of circumstances, this, in turn, yields a polarization of equilibrium policy choices of the candidates. It is thus …

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Party Formation and Racism

Anesi, Vincent; De Donder, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a model where voters differ in their exogenous income and in their ideological views regarding what we call 'racism'. Electoral competition, modelled à la Levy (2004), takes place between (one or several) parties which propose platforms consisting of both an ideological and an...

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A DSGE Model of China

Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping's reforms up until the crisis period. Bayesian ranking methods are heavily influenced by controversial priors on the degree of price/wage rigidity. When the overall models are tested...

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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals

Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We provide a method allowing to identify margins in an oligopoly price competition game when prices may not be freely chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory constraints in the pharmaceutical industry, which is...

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A DSGE Model of China

Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam

Gautier, Pieter A; Siegmann, Arjen; van Vuuren, Aico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Does Islamic terrorism have an effect on the general attitudes towards Muslim minorities? We use the murder of Theo van Gogh as an event study to address this question. Specifically, we use the hedonic-market model and test for an effect on listed house prices in neighbourhoods where more than...

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Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2009

Foellmi, Reto; Martínez, Isabel Z. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and tax data on total income. The results show that in the last 20 years, the share of top incomes has risen, and the top 0.01 percent’s share even doubled, putting Switzerland...

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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914

Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these ‘Corn Returns’ were published in the London Gazette. We computerised the data published 1770-1864, totalling around 6 million data points. Here we...

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