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An Empirical Analysis of Invalid Voting in Municipal Elections

Kyklos, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 420-439, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines blank and null voting in Brazilian mayoral elections using a large dataset covering 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020. The study finds that more competitive elections reduce blank and null percentages, with re‐election scenarios leading to more valid votes.
Vítor Castro, Rodrigo Martins, Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interdependent Preferences for Financing and Providing Public Goods—The Case of National Defense

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments often choose deficit financing over budget cuts or tax increases to fund public goods, driven by the political unpopularity of the latter options. This study investigates the potential trade‐off between maintaining prudent public finances and securing voter support by analyzing the relationship between preferences for the provision
Armin A. Bolouri, Tim Lohse, Salmai Qari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Business Students More Self‐Interested Than Law Students? A Longitudinal Study

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Substantial academic debate exists regarding whether students with economics training exhibit distinct behavioral patterns that differentiate them from students in other academic disciplines. On one hand, the debate remains open due to the heterogeneity of the results.
Cristina Miragaya‐Casillas, Raimundo Aguayo‐Estremera, Alberto Ruiz‐Villaverde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Public Expenditure on Education Improve Well‐Being? International Evidence

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to quantify the relationship between public expenditure on education and individual subjective well‐being, providing empirical evidence of the social return on this investment. We use microdata from the European Social Survey (ESS) merged with macroeconomic variables from official sources. Econometric estimations are
Rubén Rubio‐Ortiz, David Patiño, Francisco Gómez‐García   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Swiss Free Trade Agreements on Agricultural Trade

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a country highly dependent on imports, Switzerland has many free trade agreements (FTAs) that liberalise trade barriers. We assess how these agreements affect Swiss agricultural imports at different margins of trade adjustment. We estimate reduced‐form gravity models using agricultural trade data for 202 partner countries from 2004 to 2022.
Dela‐Dem Doe Fiankor, Christian Ritzel, Judith Irek, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

External Effect of Entry

The Manchester School, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 230-241, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper provides an analysis of the external effect of entry for both differentiated and homogenous products which takes account of the integer constraint, allows for cost‐based or quality‐based differences in firm size and for variation in firm conduct.
Steffen Ziss
wiley   +1 more source

On Estimates of Insider Trading in Sports Betting

The Manchester School, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 217-229, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Several researchers have reported estimates of the fraction of money placed on sports betting by “insiders” with superior information to bookmakers. We show the method for estimating the fraction of insiders used in this research is only accurate under highly unrealistic conditions and that these estimates will tend to be positive in realistic
Karl Whelan
wiley   +1 more source

Inflation Persistence in the G7: The Effects of the Covid‐19 Pandemic and of the Russia‐Ukraine War

The Manchester School, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 281-288, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This note analyses how shocks caused by the Covid‐19 and the Russia‐Ukraine crisis impact on inflation persistence G7 countries. Using data ending at December‐2019, high estimates of the persistence parameter d indicate a strong persistence of inflation.
Nuruddeen Usman, Luis Alberiko Gil‐Alana   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Fixed or Variable Rate Loan Decision: Which Small Businesses Prefer the Certainty of Fixed Rate Loans and Which Banks Offer Them?

The Manchester School, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 267-280, June 2025.
ABSTRACT If a small business expects that interest rates will rise in the future then it is rational to insure oneself against this by accepting a fixed rate loan. In addition, small firms may prefer the certainty of fixed interest payments throughout the term of a loan.
Marc Cowling, Kit Pong Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Are Transfer Payments Stimulative?—Sometimes

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the stimulative effects of transfer payments on macroeconomic aggregates using impulse response functions, forecast error variance decompositions, and spending multipliers in state‐dependent time series econometric models.
M. Iqbal Ahmed, George Anaman, Steven P. Cassou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source