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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …
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The rents of banking : a public choice approach to bank regulation
Buck, Florian Christopher - 2015
The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...
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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
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"The mother of all political problems"? : On asylum seekers and elections in Germany
Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2019
magnitude of this effect is found to be independent of the unemployment level. For the left, the positive effect of asylum … seekers tapers off with increases in unemployment, eventually becoming negative. The results suggest that the confluence of … high unemployment and high immigration would tilt the electoral landscape in Germany to the right. …
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#EleNão : economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro
Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2020 - This version: March 1, 2020
After more than one decade of sustained economic growth, accompanied by falling poverty and inequality, Brazil has been hit by an economic recession starting in 2014. This paper investigates the consequences of this labor market shock for the victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018...
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Political (self-)selection and competition : evidence from U.S. Congressional elections
Bose, Paul - 2021 - This version: October 2020
How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and general elections for the years 1998-2014 to study this question. I measure quality using previous legislative experience and the novel "identity match" quantifying how well...
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Regional resilience to displacements : explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers
Nyström, Kristina - 2015
of displacement, in terms of, for example, unemployment duration, and earning losses is comprehensive (See e … characteristics of the regional economy refer to, for example, the size of the region, unemployment level and industrial turbulence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478297
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Lockdown length and strength : labour-market effects in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2021
considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341782
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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
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