K Bagwell - Handbook of industrial organization, 2007 - Elsevier
This chapter offers a comprehensive survey of the economic analysis of advertising. A first objective is to organize the literature in a manner that clarifies what is known. A second …
What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that …
T Besley, A Case - Journal of Economic Literature, 2003 - aeaweb.org
A rich array of institutional diversity makes the United States an excellent place to study the relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes. This essay has three …
A Alesina, S Piccolo, P Pinotti - The Review of Economic Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We develop a model explaining how criminal organizations strategically use pre-electoral violence as a way of influencing electoral results and politicians' behaviour. We then …
This paper develops a simple model to analyse how a lack of political competition may lead to policies that hinder economic growth. We test the predictions of the model on panel data …
The financing of political campaigns is an area of active scholarly study. I review some of the recent literature and discuss important methodological issues that arise in empirical …
In a large-scale controlled trial in collaboration with the reelection campaign of an Italian incumbent mayor, we administered (randomized) messages about the candidate's valence …
Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are you'll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that …
S Coate - American Economic Review, 2004 - aeaweb.org
This paper argues that campaign finance policy, in the form of contribution limits and matching public financing, can be Pareto improving even under very optimistic assumptions …