| dc.creator |
Aragonés, Enriqueta |
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| dc.creator |
Palfrey, Thomas R. |
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| dc.date |
2007-11-06T09:02:27Z |
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| dc.date |
2007-11-06T09:02:27Z |
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| dc.date |
2002-06-01 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T00:58:05Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T00:58:05Z |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1891 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1891 |
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| dc.description |
Trabajo publicado como artículo en American Political Science Review 98(1): 77-90 (2004).-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055404001017 |
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| dc.description |
When two candidates of different quality compete in a one dimensional policy space, the equilibrium outcomes are asymmetric and do not correspond to the median. There are three main effects. First, the better candidate adopts more centrist policies than the worse candidate. Second, the equilibrium is statistical, in the sense that it predicts a probability distribution of outcomes rather than a single degenerate outcome. Third, the equilibrium varies systematically with the level of uncertainty about the location of the median voter. We test these three predictions using laboratory experiments, and find strong support for all three. We also observe some biases and show that they canbe explained by quantal response equilibrium. |
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| dc.description |
Aragonés acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, grant number SEC2000-1186. Palfrey acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation, grant number SES-0079301, and from the Hacker Social Science Experimental Laboratory at Caltech. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.relation |
UFAE and IAE Working Papers |
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| dc.relation |
530.02 |
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| dc.rights |
openAccess |
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| dc.subject |
Candidate quality |
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| dc.subject |
Experiments |
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| dc.subject |
Spatial competition |
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| dc.subject |
Quantal response equilibrium |
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| dc.title |
The Effect of Candidate Quality on Electoral Equilibrium: An Experimental Study |
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| dc.type |
Documento de trabajo |
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