The political cost of reforms (preliminar version of working paper number 1360: Uncertainty, electoral incentives and political myopia)
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Elections; Reforms; Asymmetric Information; Uncertainty.;JEL classification:
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2010-12-11 (All new papers)
- NEP-CDM-2010-12-11 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CTA-2010-12-11 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-MAC-2010-12-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MIC-2010-12-11 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2010-12-11 (Positive Political Economics)
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