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Electoral outcomes, power outages and firm performance

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  • Mehmet Pinar
  • Burhan Can Karahasan
  • Pinar Deniz

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Even though a wide range of the literature explores how governments target public goods strategically, only a handful of papers examine whether these electorally motivated distributive patterns have consequences for the real economy. With the use of Turkish electoral and firm-level data, this paper examines whether electoral factors affect the variation in power outages experienced by firms across Turkish regions. The findings demonstrate that sales of firms located in regions in which the incumbent party received more votes were disproportionately higher because these firms experienced relatively lower numbers and durations of power outages.

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  • Mehmet Pinar & Burhan Can Karahasan & Pinar Deniz, 2021. "Electoral outcomes, power outages and firm performance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 723-734, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:55:y:2021:i:4:p:723-734
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1853690
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    1. Luca, Davide, 2022. "National elections, sub-national growth: the politics of Turkey's provincial economic dynamics under AKP rule," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112682, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. repec:ehl:lserod:115939 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Davide Luca, 2022. "National elections, sub-national growth: the politics of Turkey’s provincial economic dynamics under AKP rule [Shift-share designs: theory and inference]," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(4), pages 829-851.

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