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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126192
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103631
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The Effect of Judicial Independence on Entrepreneurship in the US States
Dove, John A. - 2015
The relationship between institutional quality, entrepreneurship, and economic growth has been well documented within the literature. However, much less work has been done regarding judicial independence and how this affects, specifically, entrepreneurial activity. Therefore, this paper attempts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034067
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Monetary Policy Committees: meetings and outcomes
Berk, Jan Marc; Bierut, Beata K. - 2009
. In this paper we show analytically how different arrangements could affect the voting behaviour of individual MPC members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605116
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Wage cyclicality and the wage curve under the microscope
Ludsteck, Johannes - 2008
Auf der Basis der Deutschen Beschäftigtenhistorik untersuchen wir die Konjunkturabhängigkeit von Löhnen auf aggregierter und regionaler Ebene. Dabei unterscheiden wir zwischen Betriebswechslern und Beschäftigten, die im selben Betrieb bleiben. Wir finden, dass die Reaktion der Löhne auf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873943
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Social security and redistribution within generations in an overlapping generations model
Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1999
An overlapping generations model is set up in this paper to analyze social security policy in a representative democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution within generations according to individual labor incomes....
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Defining global justice : the history of US international labor standards policy
Lorenz, Edward C. - 2001
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On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism
Kesten, Onur; Kurino, Morimitsu - 2012
This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications. We show that in problems where some students cannot...
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Why chads? Determinants of voting equipment use in the United States
Garner, Phillip; Spolaore, Enrico - 2001
Contrary to widespread belief, voting machines of older types, such as lever and punchcard systems, are not used in … counties. We provide an economic explanation for this and other regularities of voting equipment usage in the U.S. We present a … relatively poorer and smaller counties that had not yet mechanized or computerized their voting system. Estimates of historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318874
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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12
Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013
Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319827