Crisis and belief: confirmation bias and the behavioral political economy of recession
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Keywords
Behavioral political economy; Voting; Political preferences; Confirmation bias; Z13; Z18; D03; H12;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management
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