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Keywords
Auctions; Elections; Political Competition; Political Campaigns; Campaign Promises; Campaign Spending.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2008-09-20 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CTA-2008-09-20 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-PBE-2008-09-20 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2008-09-20 (Positive Political Economics)
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