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Joakim, Westerlund; Johan, Blomquist - 2009

Many empirical studies of the economics of crime focus solely on the determinants thereof, and do not consider the dynamic and cross-sectional properties of their data. As a response to this, the current paper offers an in-depth analysis of this issue using data covering 21 Swedish counties from...

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Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income

Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2005

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper is therefore to disentangle the two effects by,...

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Generalized reduced rank regression

Hansen, Peter Reinhard - 2002

I introduce a technique to estimate parameters in regressions with reduced rank parameters in a general setting. The framework can handle a general class of parameter restrictions and allows for specifications with heteroskedastic and autocorrelated regression errors. Applications of this...

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Pooled Unit Root Tests in Panels with a Common Factor

Westerlund, Joakim - 2005

This paper proposes new pooled panel unit root tests that are appropriate when the data exhibit cross-sectional dependence that is generated by a single common factor. Using sequential limit arguments, we show that the tests have a limiting normal distribution that is free of nuisance parameters...

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A nonlinear panel model of cross-sectional dependence

Kapetanios, George; Mitchell, James; Shin, Yongcheol - 2010

This paper proposes a new panel model of cross-sectional dependence. The model has a number of potential structural interpretations that relate to economic phenomena such as herding in financial markets. On an econometric level it provides a flexible approach to the modelling of interactions...

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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Bekhtiar, Karim - 2023

In recent decades right-wing populist parties have experienced increased electoral success in many western democracies. This rise of the far-right, which is strongly built on the support of the working class, coincides with a sharp decline of the manufacturing sector. This paper analyzes the...

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An analysis of the Swiss vote on the use of genetically modified crops

Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions … regular voter survey undertaken after national-level voting decisions in Switzerland. Among the socioeconomic characteristics …

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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

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The political legacy of entertainment TV

Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - 2015

the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …

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