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reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … these characteristics over time and across situations. We find high reliability and that individual characteristics are …
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We study the impact of political knowledge on the attitudes of European citizens towards the possible distribution of responsibilities between European level institutions and national governments in three policy areas: foreign policy, defence and immigration policy. The hypothesis tested is that...
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measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …
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No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a … information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …
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with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …
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Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...
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-set deviation compared to single-set ones; an interpretation is given in terms of information costs; examples show the relevance of …
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described for the case where the two parties can simultaneously reveal information publicly to uninformed voters. Inverse …
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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 fabor special groups. The parties will...
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