Rent Seeking, Policy and Growth under Electoral Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence
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Keywords
Political uncertainty; economic growth; incentives;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2006-12-01 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-MAC-2006-12-01 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2006-12-01 (Positive Political Economics)
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