Search Results - "Public choice"

Nudging with care: the risks and benefits of social information by Bicchieri, Cristina, Dimant, Eugen

“…Nudges are popular types of interventions. Recent years have seen the rise of ‘norm-nudges’—nudges whose mechanism of action relies on social norms, eliciting…”
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More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias by Motoki, Fabio, Pinho Neto, Valdemar, Rodrigues, Victor

“…We investigate the political bias of a large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, which has become popular for retrieving factual information and generating content…”
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Greasing the wheels? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry by Dreher, Axel, Gassebner, Martin

“…This paper investigates the question of whether corruption might 'grease the wheels' of an economy. We investigate whether and to what extent the impact of…”
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Public choice and public health by Leeson, Peter T., Thompson, Henry A.

“…Public choice scholars have attended only modestly to issues in public health. We expect that to change rapidly given the Covid-19 pandemic. The time therefore…”
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Democracy and dictatorship revisited by Cheibub, José Antonio, Gandhi, Jennifer, Vreeland, James Raymond

“…We address the strengths and weaknesses of the main available measures of political regime and extend the dichotomous regime classification first introduced in…”
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Political business cycles 40 years after Nordhaus by Dubois, Eric

“…The aim of this article is to survey the huge literature that has emerged in the last four decades following Nordhaus’s (Rev Econ Stud 42(2):169–190, 1975)…”
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Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles? by Gootjes, Bram, de Haan, Jakob, Jong-A-Pin, Richard

“…We ask whether fiscal rules constrain incumbents from using fiscal policy tools for reelection purposes. Using data on fiscal rules provided by the IMF for a…”
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Culture, institutions and democratization by Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, Roland, Gerard

“…We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing…”
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The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years by Lewis-Beck, Michael S., Stegmaier, Mary

“…Nannestad and Paldam (Public Choice 79:213–245, 1994) published herein an extremely influential review of the literature linking economics and elections, what…”
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Rents and economic development: the perspective of Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James A.

“…We present the approach to comparative economic development of Why Nations Fail. Economic prosperity requires inclusive economic institutions—those which…”
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Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights by Gutmann, Jerg, Neuenkirch, Matthias, Neumeier, Florian

“…This study analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country’s human rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for…”
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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey by Potrafke, Niklas

“…This paper describes the influence of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I review studies using data for the national, state…”
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How not to write a constitution: lessons from Chile by Larrain, Guillermo, Negretto, Gabriel, Voigt, Stefan

“…On September 4, 2022, Chilean voters massively turned down a constitutional proposal that responded to widely shared criticisms of the 1980 constitution and…”
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Globalization and populism in Europe by Bergh, Andreas, Kärnä, Anders

“…Recent micro-level studies have suggested that globalization—in particular, economic globalization and trade with China—breeds political polarization and…”
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Spatial spill-overs from terrorism on tourism: Western victims in Islamic destination countries by Neumayer, Eric, Plümper, Thomas

“…We analyze spatial spillover effects in international tourism as a consequence of transnational terrorist attacks. Specifically, we hypothesize that attacks…”
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Corruption and the shadow economy: an empirical analysis by Dreher, Axel, Schneider, Friedrich

“…This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and the shadow economy are substitutes in…”
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Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty? by Koyama, Mark

“…This paper examines the political economy of epidemic disease. First, it outlines the incentive and information problems facing policymakers in responding to a…”
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Do refugees impact voting behavior in the host country? Evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey by Altındağ, Onur, Kaushal, Neeraj

“…We study how individual political preferences changed in response to the influx of over 3.5 million Syrian refugees to Turkey during 2012–2016. Using a…”
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Split Cycle: a new Condorcet-consistent voting method independent of clones and immune to spoilers by Holliday, Wesley H., Pacuit, Eric

“…We propose a Condorcet-consistent voting method that we call Split Cycle. Split Cycle belongs to the small family of known voting methods satisfying the…”
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Sabotage in contests: a survey by Chowdhury, Subhasish M., Gürtler, Oliver

“…A contest is a situation in which individuals expend irretrievable resources to win valuable prize(s). "Sabotage" is a deliberate and costly act of damaging a…”
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