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The Lack of Public Health Spending and Economic Growth in Russia: A Regional Aspect

Olga Demidova, Elena Kayasheva, Artem Demyanenko.

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Economics. EC. Высшая школа экономики, 2023. No. 263.

FES International Research Seminar Series with professor Galina Zudenkova, University Of Mannheim, Germany

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Our next speaker in the FES International Research Seminar Series is Galina Zudenkova, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Galina is a bright young economist with research interests in Applied Theory, Political Economy, Public Economics, Contract Theory, and Industrial Organization. She published in a number of top journals such as AEJ: Micro, EER, JPubE.

SpeakerGalina Zudenkova, University of Mannheim

Title: “Incumbents' Performance and Political Polarization”

The abstract: This paper studies the relationship between incumbents' performance and political polarization, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a spatial model of political competition in which the voters use the incumbent's performance in office to update their beliefs about his competence. A better performance leads to the incumbent's electoral advantage and so allows him to announce a more extreme platform closer to his bliss point. Therefore, conditioned on reelection, a better incumbent's performance leads to higher political polarization. We use the data on the incumbents' performance in natural disaster relief and the ideological positions they take in the U.S. House of representatives in 1953-2010. The empirical evidence shows that a better performance in post-disaster recovery is associated with more extreme ideological positions of the corresponding incumbents. These and other empirical results are in line with the model predictions.

Date: October 30, 2017

Time13:40-15:00

Venue: Shabolovka campus, room 3211

FES Seminars webpagehttps://economics.hse.ru/en/seminars/ 

For external participants: to order the pass, please contact avolchina@hse.ru