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Policy Experimentation, Political Competition, and Heterogeneous Beliefs

Millner, Antony; Ollivier, Hélène; Simon, Leo - 2014

endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (policy experimentation), future political competition … unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters payoffs, but they have … different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can …

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The economic analysis of populism a selective review of the literature

Ocampo, Emilio - 2019

Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...

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Precommitted government spending and partisan politics

Watkins, William; Bohn, Henning - 2011

This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a 'stubborn liberal' policy maker can use...

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Strategic Campaigns and Redistributive Politics

Schultz, Christian - 2003

The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties favor special groups. The parties will...

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2022

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study 'Potterian economics', the economic ideas, insights, and...

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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Potterian Economics

Levy, Daniel; Snir, Avichai - In: Oxford Open Economics 1 (2022), pp. 1-32

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study ‘Potterian economics’, the economic ideas, insights...

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Potterian Economics

Levy, Daniel; Snir, Avichai - 2017

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Transparency and trust in government: Evidence from a survey experiment

Alessandro, Martin; Lagomarsino, Bruno Cardinale; … - 2019

randomized survey experiment conducted in Argentina. Results show that providing information to citizens matters for shaping …

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...

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