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agents who are uncertain about choice payoffs and who have access to a flexible, costly information acquisition technology … the decision maker’s prior information to differ across choices. In this paper, I solve the RI-logit model analytically … exogenous change in prior information, thus extending the model’s applicability to a new range of settings where prior …
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Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a … information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …
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-driven theory of dynamic pricing in which the Phillips curve slope is endogenous to systematic aspects of monetary policy. In our …
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Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a … information is assessed in terms of its contribution to productivity …
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We incorporate prospect-theory preferences in a game-theoretic model to study voter turnout. We show that voter turnout …
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The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
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organizations. We test this theory empirically by examining how the United States uses bilateral aid and IMF loans to buy other …
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Electoral reform creates new strategic coordination incentives for voters, but these effects are difficult to isolate. We identify how the reform of the Norwegian electoral system in 1919, when single-member districts (SMDs) were replaced with multi- member proportional representation (PR),...
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This paper documents the existence of Political Forecast Cycles. In a theoretical model of political selection, we show that governments release overly optimistic GDP growth forecasts ahead of elections to increase the reelection probability. The bias arises from lack of commitment if voters are...
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This paper exploits a novel trial in Norwegian local elections in 2011 to provide empirical evidence on fiscal performance from lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Using a difference in differences research strategy, we find that this voting age change reduced the net operating...
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