On the behaviour of voters and politicians: municipal elections and the economy

This thesis investigates the behaviour of politicians and voters in local elections. The first paper studies the effects of campaigning when public funding covers a sizeable share of spending. It develops a probabilistic voting model and a causal, instrumental variable, empirical analysis using a no...

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Main Author: Carvalho, Bruno Pessoa (author)
Format: doctoralThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Local elections
Campaign spending
Negativity bias
Local fiscal multipliers
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/69913
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/69913

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http://hdl.handle.net/10362/69913

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