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Studies in Persuasion and Enforcement in Political Economy

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This dissertation presents research on the game theory of political power, both between and within nations. It first revisits a classical distinction between three different types of power or influence: information, rewards and threats. By presenting a binary-action Principal-Agent problem which incorporates the essential ingredients of all three types of...

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Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Political Economy

Subject:

Economics, Political science, and Economic theory

Creator:

Theisen, Alexander Scott

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

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en

Date Uploaded:

01/21/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_742509 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15094
Essays on Empirical Political Economy

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This dissertation contains three essays. In the first essay, "The Role of Connections in Congressional Lawmaking", I investigate the role of connections in congressional lawmaking by studying how legislators' deaths impact their peers' capacity to sponsor and advance bills in the U.S. House of Representatives. I focus on legislators who...

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Economics and Political science

Creator:

Garro Beraza, Haritz

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

01/21/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_723511 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15026
Essays on Political Finance

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This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...

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Financial Crises, Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Voting

Subject:

Economics, Finance, and Political science

Creator:

van Straelen, Hendrik Philip

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651

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