Public Choice

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19-02-2019 Open Access

Elections, recession expectations and excessive debt: an unholy trinity

In the literature, it has been suggested that political budget cycles are context-conditional, i.e., do not occur in all countries or under all circumstances. What about the underlying economic conditions? It has already has been shown that …

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13-02-2019

Is the market for digital privacy a failure?

Conventional wisdom holds that the market for digital privacy fails owing to widespread informational asymmetry between digital firms and their customers, behavioral biases exhibited by those customers, and negative externalities from data resale.

11-02-2019

Rent seeking at 52: an introduction to a special issue of public choice

A half century after he developed it, Gordon Tullock’s idea of rent seeking is more relevant than ever. Though the concept has gained widespread acceptance among academics, it has yet to make an impression on public discourse. But with favoritism …

01-02-2019

Sabotage in team contests

In the contest literature, sabotage is defined as a deliberate and costly activity that damages the opponent’s likelihood of winning the contest. Most of the existing results suggest that, anticipating a possible sabotage, contestants would be …

28-01-2019

Intra-party politics and interest groups: missing links in explaining government effectiveness

The article sheds light on two missing links in the existing literature on government’s policy preferences and policy choices, namely the roles played by party factions and trade unions as political actors able to affect government’s …

Additional information

Title

Public Choice

Publisher

Springer US

Coverage

Volume 90/1997 - Volume 180/2019

Print ISSN

0048-5829

Electronic ISSN

1573-7101

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/11127.1573-7101

Journal ID

11127