A Note on Asymmetric Policies: Pandering and State-specific Costs of Mismatch in Political Agency
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- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
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- NEP-ENV-2021-07-26 (Environmental Economics)
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