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Booth, Richard A. - 2014

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Policy uncertainty and manufacturing investment : evidence from U.S. State elections

Shelton, Cameron A.; Falk, Nathan - 2016 - This draft: March 2016

We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because …, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan … affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the …

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Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment : Evidence from U.S. State Elections

Shelton, Cameron A. - 2016

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Campaign contests

Denter, Philipp - In: European economic review : EER 127 (2020), pp. 1-23

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Uncontested incumbents and incumbent upsets

Alexander, Dan - In: Games and economic behavior 126 (2021), pp. 163-185

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American Idol : Should it Be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021

In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...

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Is populism reversible? Evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023

We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We implement a difference-in-differences approach that exploits exogenous variation across municipalities in the share of inactive workers due to the economic lockdown introduced by the...

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Good policy choices even when voters entertain biased beliefs: a model with endogenous valence

Bischoff, Ivo; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2008

In The Myth of the Rational Voter Brian Caplan shows that voters entertain systematically biased beliefs on a number of essential issues of economic policy and concludes that this leads democracies to choose bad policies. We introduce the psychological concept of mental models to address voter'...

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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014

This paper explores the role of mass media in people’s perceptions of charismatic leaders, focusing on the case of Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Using survey data collected immediately after Koizumi’s 2005 landslide electoral victory, this study empirically...

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Working paper No. 240 Bloc – party Politics and Economic Outcomes. What Are the Effects of Local Parties?

Lakomaa, Erik; Korpi, Martin - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...

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