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The Politics of the Paycheck Protection Program

The Review of Corporate Finance Studies
Does partisanship influence loan allocation through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)? We examine the 2020 Presidential campaign contributions made by lenders’ employees as a partisanship measure and leverage the PPP’s phased implementation under ...
Deniz Igan, Thomas E. Lambert, Prachi Mishra, E. Zhang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Civic externalities motivate education expenditures, but estimates of the civic returns to large-scale education subsidies are scarce. We use 16 million financial aid applications and a regression discontinuity (RD) design to estimate how a tuition-free ...
Daniel Firoozi, Igor Geyn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Passing Your Gun to Your Enemy—Madness or Rationality? Rational Transfers in a Network 
of Contests

Arthaniti-Journal of Economic Theory and Practice
Transferring conflict-resources to an enemy is clearly irrational in a two-agent contest. But it might be possible (in equilibrium) in a network of contests.
Dripto Bakshi, Ajit Mishra
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We exploit the quasi-random timing of natural disasters to study the connection between public attention to politics and legislators’ support for special interests.
Ethan Kaplan, J¨org L. Spenkuch, Haishan Yuan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Voter Information and Distributive Politics

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Does more information benefit voters? I examine this question in a novel setting of distributive politics and electoral accountability. Homogeneously informed electorates can benefit from less information through improvements in the control or screening ...
B. Blumenthal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Power, Property Rights, and the Dynamics of Local Wealth Appropriation

Social Science Research Network
We examine the dynamic connections between local wealth inequality and the local politics of property rights. A jurisdiction comprises a politically dominant in-group and a marginalized out-group. At each date, the jurisdiction exploits weaknesses in due
Dan Cao, Roger Lagunoff, Ying Xu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

Social Science Research Network
We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms
Aiyesha Dey, A. Starkweather, Joshua T. White   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Water Pollution Progress at Borders: The Role of Changes in China's Political Promotion Incentives

, 2015
Matthew E. Kahn, Pei Li, Daxuan Zhao
semanticscholar   +1 more source