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Populism, Political Risk and the Economy: Lessons from Italy 民粹主义、政治风险和经济:意大利的教训
Pub Date : 2020-01-22 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3534477
Pierluigi Balduzzi, Emanuele Brancati, M. Brianti, F. Schiantarelli
We study the effects on financial markets and real economic activity of changes in risk related to political events and policy announcements in Italy during the 2013-2019 period that saw the rise to power of populist parties. We focus on events that have implications for budgetary policy, debt sustainability and for Euro membership. We use changes in the Credit Default Swaps (CDS) spreads on governments bonds around those dates as an instrument for shocks to policy and institutional risk – political risk for short – in the context of Local Projections - IV. We show that shocks associated with the rise of populist forces or their policies have adverse and sizable effects on financial markets. These negative effects were moderated by the European institutions and domestic constitutional constraints. In addition, Italian political developments generate international spillover effects on the spreads of other eurozone countries. Finally, political risk shocks have a negative impact on the real economy, although the accommodating stance of monetary policy helped in cushioning them.
我们研究了2013-2019年期间民粹主义政党上台的意大利政治事件和政策公告相关风险变化对金融市场和实体经济活动的影响。我们关注对预算政策、债务可持续性和欧元区成员资格有影响的事件。我们利用这些日期前后政府债券信用违约掉期(CDS)息差的变化,作为政策和制度风险冲击的工具——简称政治风险——在本地预测的背景下——IV。我们表明,与民粹主义力量的崛起或其政策相关的冲击对金融市场产生了不利的、相当大的影响。这些负面影响被欧洲机构和国内宪法限制所缓和。此外,意大利的政治发展对其他欧元区国家的利差产生了国际溢出效应。最后,政治风险冲击会对实体经济产生负面影响,尽管宽松的货币政策立场有助于缓解这些冲击。
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引用次数: 19
Access to Information Laws and Voter Behavior: Does Transparency Increase Participation? 信息获取法与选民行为:透明度会增加参与吗?
Pub Date : 2020-01-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3448770
Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Electoral participation is an integral component of democracy and can be an effective tool in the battle against corruption. However, encouraging participation in areas with highly corrupt governments is difficult. In this paper, I explore the role of transparency in voter turnout. I exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the municipal implementation of Brazil’s 2011 Access to Public Information (ATI) law on voter turnout in mayoral elections. I find that municipal ATI laws increase broad participation overall but are most effective when coupled with a commitment to accountability. These results are robust to an in-time placebo test and numerous alternative specifications. These findings suggest that increased transparency can lead to increased voter participation and democratic accountability within a country that suffers from corruption.
选举参与是民主的一个组成部分,可以成为打击腐败的有效工具。然而,在政府腐败严重的地区鼓励参与是很困难的。在本文中,我探讨了透明度在选民投票率中的作用。我利用了巴西2011年公共信息获取(ATI)法在市长选举中选民投票率方面的外生变化。我发现市政ATI法律总体上增加了广泛的参与,但当与责任承诺相结合时最有效。这些结果对即时安慰剂测试和许多替代规格是稳健的。这些发现表明,在一个腐败严重的国家,提高透明度可以提高选民参与度和民主问责制。
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引用次数: 1
‘Voting Behavior’ to Make Better Choice With Reference to Delhi NCR 参考德里NCR,“投票行为”可以做出更好的选择
Pub Date : 2020-01-06 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3514384
Amit K. Gupta, Dr. Mohit Sharma
Existing political economy models have tended to examine how more information influences either electoral accountability or on turnout. Our evidence and theoretical reasoning, however, suggests that information should influence both margins of voter behavior. One contribution of this paper is to provide a model which identifies the conditions under which information increases electoral accountability when turnout is endogenous. We consider an economic environment in which a sub-population of ethical voters face a cost of voting but may still choose to vote in order to maximize group welfare. We assume that these voters favor politicians whom they expect to perform better, where performance is measured along the lines framed by the report cards. More precise information about incumbent performance increases the expected benefits from voting for the preferred candidate and, therefore, typically increases turnout and reduces vote buying. More precise performance and qualification signals also boost the vote share of better performing incumbents under reasonable conditions. Finally, how turnout varies with incumbent performance depends on voters’ priors.
现有的政治经济学模型倾向于研究更多的信息如何影响选举问责制或投票率。然而,我们的证据和理论推理表明,信息应该影响选民行为的两个边缘。本文的一个贡献是提供了一个模型,该模型确定了当投票率是内生的时,信息增加选举问责的条件。我们考虑这样一种经济环境,在这种经济环境中,道德选民的亚群面临投票成本,但他们仍可能为了群体福利最大化而选择投票。我们假设这些选民倾向于他们认为表现更好的政客,因为他们的表现是根据成绩单来衡量的。关于现任总统表现的更精确的信息增加了投票给首选候选人的预期收益,因此通常会增加投票率并减少买票行为。在合理的条件下,更精确的表现和资格信号也会提高表现较好的现任者的选票份额。最后,投票率如何随现任总统的表现而变化取决于选民的经验。
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引用次数: 0
Bitcoin and Global Political Uncertainty - Evidence from the U.S. Election Cycle 比特币与全球政治不确定性——来自美国选举周期的证据
Pub Date : 2020-01-06 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3514522
Tobias Burggraf
In this study, we investigate the impact of political uncertainty on Bitcoin. Introducing the U.S. federal election cycle as a proxy for political uncertainty, we find that (i) an increase in political uncertainty leads to a decrease in Bitcoin return, (ii) political uncertainty has the strongest impact on Bitcoin six and three months prior the election and decreases as the election date approaches, and (iii) the effect is more pronounced in the left and right tail of the distribution. The results shed a new light on the property of Bitcoin being a safe haven asset and provide important information for investors and policymakers.
在这项研究中,我们调查了政治不确定性对比特币的影响。将美国联邦选举周期作为政治不确定性的代表,我们发现(i)政治不确定性的增加导致比特币回报的减少,(ii)政治不确定性在选举前六个月和三个月对比特币的影响最大,并随着选举日期的临近而减少,以及(iii)影响在分布的左右尾部更为明显。研究结果揭示了比特币作为避险资产的特性,并为投资者和政策制定者提供了重要信息。
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引用次数: 1
Governance and Group Conflict 治理与群体冲突
Pub Date : 2020-01-05 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3532465
Felix Kölle
Many situations in the social and economic life are characterized by rivalry and conflict between two or more competing groups. Warfare, socio-political conflicts, political elections, lobbying, and R&D competitions are all examples of inter-group conflicts in which groups spend scarce and costly resources to gain an advantage over other groups. Here, we report on an experiment that investigates the impact of political institutions within groups on the development of conflict between groups. We find that relative to the case in which group members can decide individually on their level of conflict engagement, conflict significantly intensifies when investments are determined democratically by voting or when a single group member (the dictator) can decide on behalf of the group. These results hold for both symmetric and asymmetric contests, as well as for situations in which institutions are adopted exogenously or endogenously. Our findings thus suggest that giving people the possibility to vote is not the main reason for why democracies seem to engage in less wars than autocracies. Nevertheless, when giving participants the possibility to choose which institution to adopt, we find that the voting institution is the by far most popular one as it combines the desirable features of autonomy and equality
社会和经济生活中的许多情况都以两个或两个以上相互竞争的群体之间的竞争和冲突为特征。战争、社会政治冲突、政治选举、游说和研发竞争都是群体间冲突的例子,在这些冲突中,群体花费稀缺和昂贵的资源来获得优于其他群体的优势。在这里,我们报告了一项实验,该实验调查了群体内部政治制度对群体之间冲突发展的影响。我们发现,相对于群体成员可以单独决定其冲突参与程度的情况,当投资是通过民主投票决定的,或者当一个群体成员(独裁者)可以代表群体做出决定时,冲突会显著加剧。这些结果既适用于对称竞争,也适用于非对称竞争,也适用于制度外因或内因被采用的情况。因此,我们的研究结果表明,给予人们投票的可能性并不是民主国家似乎比专制国家更少参与战争的主要原因。然而,当参与者有可能选择采用哪种制度时,我们发现投票制度是迄今为止最受欢迎的制度,因为它结合了自治和平等的理想特征
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引用次数: 0
How Do Member Countries Receive IMF Policy Advice: Results from a State-of-the-Art Sentiment Index 成员国如何接受IMF的政策建议:最新情绪指数的结果
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5089/9781513526010.001
G. Fayad, Chengyu Huang, Y. Shibuya, Peng Zhao
This paper applies state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to develop the first sentiment index measuring member countries’ reception of IMF policy advice at the time of Article IV Consultations. This paper finds that while authorities of member countries largely agree with Fund advice, there is variation across country size, external openness, policy sectors and their assessed riskiness, political systems, and commodity export intensity. The paper also looks at how sentiment changes during and after a financial arrangement or program with the Fund, as well as when a country receives IMF technical assistance. The results shed light on key aspects on Fund surveillance while redefining how the IMF can view its relevance, value added, and traction with its member countries.
本文应用最先进的深度学习技术开发了第一个情绪指数,衡量成员国在第四条磋商时对IMF政策建议的接受程度。本文发现,虽然成员国当局基本上同意基金组织的建议,但在国家规模、对外开放程度、政策部门及其评估风险、政治制度和商品出口强度等方面存在差异。该报告还研究了在基金组织的金融安排或计划期间和之后,以及一国接受基金组织技术援助时,情绪是如何变化的。结果揭示了基金组织监督的关键方面,同时重新定义了基金组织如何看待其相关性、附加值和对成员国的吸引力。
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引用次数: 12
A Characterization of Approval Voting Without the Approval Balloting Assumption 不含赞成投票假设的赞成投票的表征
Pub Date : 2019-12-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3519847
Federica Ceron, Stéphane Gonzalez
We provide an axiomatic characterization of Approval Voting without the approval balloting assumption. The dichotomous structure of the informational basis of Approval voting as well as its aggregative rationale are jointly derived from a set of normative conditions on the voting procedure. The first one is the well-known social-theoretic principle of consistency; the second one, ballot richness, requires voters to be able to express a sufficiently rich set of opinions; the last one, dubbed no single-voter overrides, demands that the addition of a voter to an electorate cannot radically change the outcome of the election. Such result is promising insofar it suggests that the informational basis of voting may have a normative relevance that deserves formal treatment.
我们提供了一个没有批准投票假设的批准投票的公理化表征。批准投票的信息基础的二分法结构及其总体理据是由投票程序的一套规范性条件共同导出的。第一个是众所周知的社会理论的一致性原则;第二,选票丰富性,要求选民能够表达足够丰富的意见;最后一个条款被称为“单一选民不能推翻”,它要求选民中增加一名选民不能从根本上改变选举结果。这样的结果是有希望的,因为它表明投票的信息基础可能具有值得正式处理的规范性相关性。
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引用次数: 1
Political Ideology over the Life Course 人生历程中的政治意识形态
Pub Date : 2019-12-09 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3501174
S. Peltzman
Young people tend to be more liberal than older people. This paper goes beyond that generality to describe more precisely how self-described political ideology varies with age. I distinguish period (across people of different ages at a moment in time) from cohort (changes in people as they get older) characterizations of this age-ideology gradient. Data are from General Social Surveys from 1974 through 2018, including synthetic cohorts formed from 5 year subsamples of the data. Ideology is measured on a {-1, 1} scale: liberals (conservatives) are -1 (+1) and moderates are 0. The average of this measure (Libcon) generally increases with age both within every 5-year sub-period and among all available cohorts; the shape of these gradients varies considerably across these sub-periods. However, the longer run central tendency is a very well defined concave gradient that rises over the whole life course. The period and cohort versions of this gradient essentially overlap. The change in mean Libcon from early adulthood (25) to old age (80) is substantial (over. 20 on the -1, 1 scale), and around half of this occurs after age 45. I discuss implications for “purple America” characterizations of political ideology and for the strain of literature emphasizing ideological “persistence.”
年轻人往往比老年人更自由。本文超越了这种概括性,更精确地描述了自我描述的政治意识形态是如何随着年龄而变化的。我区分了这种年龄-意识形态梯度的时期(不同年龄的人在某一时刻的表现)和群体(随着年龄的增长人们的变化)特征。数据来自1974年至2018年的综合社会调查,包括由数据的5年子样本组成的合成队列。意识形态以{- 1,1}来衡量:自由派(保守派)为-1(+1),温和派为0。该指标的平均值(Libcon)在每5年的子周期内以及在所有可用队列中通常随年龄增长而增加;这些梯度的形状在这些子期之间变化很大。然而,较长期的集中趋势是一个非常明确的凹梯度,在整个生命过程中上升。这个梯度的时期和群体版本本质上是重叠的。从成年早期(25岁)到老年(80岁),平均Libcon的变化很大(超过80岁)。20(- 1,1),其中大约一半发生在45岁以后。我讨论了“紫色美国”对政治意识形态的刻画以及强调意识形态“坚持”的文学流派的含义。
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引用次数: 5
Approval Ratings and Predicting United States Presidential Elections 支持率和预测美国总统选举
Pub Date : 2019-11-23 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3492191
S. Strong, I. S. Kohli
Predicting the outcomes of United States Presidential Elections has become a favourite project of many data scientists and academics. Creating a model which can accurately predict who the next president will be is a sure-fire way to solidify one’s name as a reputable source of analysis. The objective of this research paper was to look at various data, and see if there are any important variables which modellers have ignored. A dataset was organized, which included many variables, including economic indicators like GDP growth, average presidential approval ratings, and changes in party composition in the House of Representatives. This included information for every presidential election from 1948 to present. The dataset was then bootstrapped and analyzed through a model which used gradient boosted trees. The findings of the model found a surprisingly high significance for the variable of average approval rating. In 5546 out of 10,000 bootstrap runs (55.46%), this variable was the most significant in predicting the outcome of the election. Given the model’s accuracy rating of 79.52% on test sets, there is validity to the claim that average approval rating is an important predictor of election outcome (though not by itself, as interaction with the other variables was necessary for predictions). The model was then used to predict the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, based on current data. After running the model 10,000 times with the 2020 election as the test set, it was found that Donald Trump was re-elected in 366 trials, indicating a 3.66% chance of re-election given current data (which, especially regarding the economic indicators, is subject to change). A sensitivity analysis of the average approval rating found that for his odds of re-election to exceed 50%, his average approvals must climb to at least 60%. Based on the findings of this report, it can be concluded that approval ratings, while generally ignored or minimized in other models, are actually a very significant indicator of election outcome. If this is correct, president Trump is facing serious challenges in 2020, though with one year left, and economic data left to be reported, his odds could change.
预测美国总统大选的结果已经成为许多数据科学家和学者最喜欢的项目。建立一个能准确预测下一任总统是谁的模型,是巩固自己作为一个有信誉的分析来源的可靠方法。本研究论文的目的是查看各种数据,看看是否有建模者忽略的重要变量。我们编制了一个数据集,其中包含许多变量,包括GDP增长等经济指标、总统的平均支持率、众议院政党组成的变化。这包括从1948年至今的每一次总统选举的信息。然后通过使用梯度增强树的模型对数据集进行引导和分析。该模型的研究结果发现,平均支持率这一变量具有惊人的高显著性。在1万次bootstrap中,有5546次(55.46%)对选举结果的预测最为重要。考虑到该模型在测试集上的准确率为79.52%,平均支持率是选举结果的重要预测指标(尽管不是它本身,因为与其他变量的相互作用是预测所必需的)的说法是有效的。然后,该模型被用于根据当前数据预测2020年总统大选的结果。在以2020年大选为测试集运行该模型1万次后,发现唐纳德·特朗普在366次试验中再次当选,根据当前数据(特别是经济指标,可能会发生变化),这表明连任的可能性为3.66%。一项对平均支持率的敏感性分析发现,要想让他连任的几率超过50%,他的平均支持率必须攀升至至少60%。根据本报告的研究结果,可以得出结论,在其他模型中通常被忽略或最小化的支持率实际上是选举结果的一个非常重要的指标。如果这是正确的,那么特朗普总统在2020年将面临严峻的挑战,尽管还有一年的时间,经济数据还没有公布,他获胜的几率可能会改变。
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It’s Not About the Money! EU Funds, Local Opportunities, and the Brexit Vote 这不是钱的问题!欧盟基金、当地机会和英国脱欧公投
Pub Date : 2019-11-09 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3489134
R. Crescenzi, Marco Di Cataldo, Mara Giua
Growing Euroscepticism across the European Union (EU) leaves open questions as to what citizens expect to gain from EU Membership and what influences their dissent for the EU integration project. This paper looks at EU Structural Funds, one of the largest and most visible expenditure items in the EU budget, to test the impact of EU money on electoral support for the EU. By leveraging the Referendum on Brexit hold in the United Kingdom, a spatial RDD analysis offers causal evidence that EU money does not influence citizens’ support for the EU. Conversely, the analysis shows that EU funds contribute to mitigate Euroscepticism only where they are coupled with tangible improvements in the local labour market conditions. In order to gain support from its citizens, the European Union needs to produce tangible impacts, generating opportunities at the local level where these are felt the most by voters.
欧盟(EU)内部日益增长的欧洲怀疑主义留下了一些悬而未决的问题:公民希望从欧盟成员国身份中获得什么,以及是什么影响了他们对欧盟一体化项目的异议。本文着眼于欧盟结构基金,这是欧盟预算中最大和最明显的支出项目之一,以测试欧盟资金对欧盟选举支持的影响。通过利用英国脱欧公投,空间RDD分析提供了因果证据,表明欧盟资金不会影响公民对欧盟的支持。相反,分析表明,只有在欧盟资金与当地劳动力市场状况的切实改善相结合的情况下,欧盟资金才有助于缓解欧洲怀疑主义。为了获得公民的支持,欧盟需要产生切实的影响,在选民最能感受到的地方层面创造机会。
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