Politicians' Outside Earnings and Electoral Competition
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- Johannes Becker & Andreas Peichl & Johannes Rincke, 2009. "Politicians’ outside earnings and electoral competition," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 140(3), pages 379-394, September.
- Becker, Johannes & Peichl, Andreas & Rincke, Johannes, 2008. "Politicians' outside earnings and electoral competition," FiFo Discussion Papers - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge 08-3, University of Cologne, FiFo Institute for Public Economics.
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Outside earnings; Electoral competition;JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2008-03-15 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2008-03-15 (Positive Political Economics)
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