Matteo Picchio,Raffaella Santolini
Matteo Picchio
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by exp...
Political alignment, centralisation, and the sense of government unpreparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
政治取向，集中化，在COVID-19疫情期间对政府准备情况的感知
Massimiliano Ferraresi,Gianluca Gucciardi
Massimiliano Ferraresi
We rely on a periodic public opinion poll indicator of the performance of mayors collected for 103 large cities in Italy and in three waves (2015, 2017, and 2020) to examine whether and to what extent the exogenous shift in policy-making de...
Tania Fernandez-Navia,Eduardo Polo-Muro,David Tercero-Lucas
Tania Fernandez-Navia
This paper studies the causal effect of local exposure to COVID-19 on voting behaviour and electoral outcomes using evidence from the regional elections held in Spain on 12 July 2020. Exploiting the variation in exposure to COVID-19 and usi...
Ludger Schuknecht,Vincent Siegerink
Ludger Schuknecht
The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector. The study finds that the size of the banking sector and the presence of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are p...
A political economy perspective on horizontal FDI in a dynamic Cournot-oligopoly with endogenous entry [0.03%]
动态库尔诺寡头竞争中内生进入下的横向外国直接投资的政治经济学视角分析
Laszlo Goerke
Laszlo Goerke
Entry in a homogeneous Cournot-oligopoly is excessive if and only if there is business-stealing (Amir et al., 2014). The excessive entry prediction has been derived primarily for closed economies and using a welfarist benchmark. We extend t...
Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy? [0.03%]
小泉获胜：日本大选结果喜忧参半？
Yoshiro Tsutsui,Miles Kimball,Fumio Ohtake
Yoshiro Tsutsui
This paper investigates whether the Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September 11, 2005, in which the Prime Minister, Koizumi, won a landslide victory. We conducted a large survey just after the ...