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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2013

This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants' prize...

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Equity and effectiveness of optimal taxation in contests under an all-pay auction

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2012

The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an all-pay auction is appealing in two senses. First, it...

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Differential prize taxation and structural discrimination in contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282059

The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2012

This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...

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Symmetric and asymmetric committees

Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2011

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...

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Habit formation, strategic extremism and debt policy

Matsen, Egil; Thøgersen, Øystein - 2007

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation …

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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey

Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014

Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That's what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who played...

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How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy

Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2012

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...

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International Political Alignment During the Trump Presidency : Voting at the UN General Assembly

Mosler, Martin - 2020

We examine voting behavior of Western allied countries in line with the United States over the period 1949 until 2019 …. Descriptive statistics show that voting in line with the United States on resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA … policy shift is especially pronounced for resolutions dealing with the Middle East. The decline in common UNGA voting …

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Immigration and Electoral Support for the Far-Left and the Far-Right

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018

several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … no robust effect on far-left voting. The increased support for far-right candidates is driven by low educated immigrants …

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