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Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017

experiment compares one-shot and indefinite horizon versions of random-proposer majority bargaining (the Baron-Ferejohn game …

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Vote buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...

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(Dis)honesty and the value of transparency for campaign promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

of transparency in an incentivized experiment. Transparency leads to less promise breaking but also to less generous …

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)

electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics …

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Civil rights protests and election outcomes : exploring the effects of the Poor People's Campaign

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - 2024

estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …

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Political consequences of consumer debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2022

foundation win the 2018 Presidential election, and that its effects persisted into the next election. We show how economic power …

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Election cycles in European public procurement

Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus - 2021

This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level …

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Political consequences of (consumer) debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2024 - This version: March 6, 2024

Many governments operate consumer debt relief programs, often timed to match the election cycle, but their political … that the program helped the incumbent candidate win that election, and that its effects persisted. Overall, we show how …

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Fairness in matching markets : experimental evidence

König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023

We investigate fairness preferences in matching mechanisms using a spectator design. Participants choose between the Boston mechanism or the serial dictatorship mechanism (SD) played by others. In our setup, the Boston mechanism generates justified envy, while the strategy-proof SD ensures...

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How Trump triumphed: multi-candidate primaries with buffoons

Castanheira, Micael; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes Josef - 2020

While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...

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