The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008-2009 US financial crisis [0.03%]
政治关系与企业救助：美国次贷危机期间的政治关联对企业救助的影响研究
Vuk Vukovic
Vuk Vukovic
In 2008, as the financial crisis unfolded in the United States, the banking industry elevated its lobbying and campaign spending activities. By the end of 2008, and during 2009, the biggest political spenders, on average, received the large...
Kornai on the affinity of systems: Is China today an illiberal capitalist system or a communist dictatorship? [0.03%]
科奈论体制的近亲性：今天的中国是不自由的资本主义还是共产主义专制？
Péter Mihályi,Iván Szelényi
Péter Mihályi
More than 40 years ago, János Kornai introduced his famous supermarket metaphor. Socioeconomic systems cannot be constructed from purposely selected features, similar to customers in a supermarket, who can freely put into their shopping tr...
Yuriy Gorodnichenko,Gerard Roland
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially more challenging collective action problems, countries with individualistic ...
Cracking the whip: spatial voting with party discipline and voter polarization [0.03%]
党纪与选民分化下的空间投票模型
T D P Waters
T D P Waters
The spatial voting theory literature has generally focused on either parties or candidates as the unit of analysis and ignored strategic interactions between them. I study a game theoretic spatial model of elections with many heterogeneous ...
Damien Bol,André Blais,Jean-François Laslier
Damien Bol
The paper builds upon an original pre- and post-election survey that we conducted before and after the 2015 Canadian election. Directly after Election Day, we asked Canadians for which party they voted, and whether they regret their choice....
The Relationship Between the Normalized Gradient Addition Mechanism and Quadratic Voting [0.03%]
归一化梯度添加机制与二次投票之间的关系
Daniel Benjamin,Ori Heffetz,Miles Kimball et al.
Daniel Benjamin et al.
Quadratic Voting and the Normalized Gradient Addition mechanism are both social choice mechanisms that confront individuals with quadratic budget constraints, but they are applicable in different contexts. Adapting one or both to apply to t...
The economics of AIDS-related health insurance regulations: interest group influence and ideology [0.03%]
艾滋病相关健康保险规定的经济学：利益集团影响与意识形态
Robert L Ohsfeldt,Stephan F Gohmann
Robert L Ohsfeldt