Candidate quality in a Downsian Model with a Continuous Policy Space
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- Aragonès, Enriqueta & Xefteris, Dimitrios, 2012. "Candidate quality in a Downsian model with a continuous policy space," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 75(2), pages 464-480.
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spatial competition; mixed strategies; candidate quality;All these keywords.
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- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2011-02-05 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2011-02-05 (Positive Political Economics)
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