Public Choice

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07.05.2021

Targeting inflation targeting: the influence of interest groups

We examine whether sectional interest groups influence monetary policy goals in a manner consistent with their interests as distributive coalitions. In particular, we explore whether bank groups and labor groups are associated with the incidence …

23.04.2021

Leave them kids alone! National exams as a political tool

In this paper, we show how results in state administered university entrance standardized exams in Portugal are sensitive to the electoral cycle. Using individual data for all senior high school students taking national exams between the years …

17.04.2021

Rent seeking for madness: the political economy of mental asylums in the United States, 1870 to 1910

From the end of the Civil War to the onset of the Great War, the United States experienced an unprecedented increase in commitment rates for mental asylums. Historians and sociologists often explain this increase by noting that public sentiment …

09.04.2021

A Talmudic constrained voting majority rule

Talmudic Law requires a minimal supermajority (13 out of 23) for conviction, but at the same time, provides that a unanimous conviction leads to a mistrial. We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for sincere and strategic voting and …

03.04.2021

The effect of mass legalization on US state-level institutions: Evidence from the immigration reform and control act

A new case for immigration restrictions argues that migrants may transmit low productivity to their destination countries by importing low-quality economic institutions. Using the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) as a natural …

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Titel

Public Choice

Verlag

Springer US

Abdeckung

Jahrgang 90/1997 - Jahrgang 187/2021

Print ISSN

0048-5829

Elektronische ISSN

1573-7101

DOI

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

Zeitschriften-ID

11127