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Caps on political contributions, monetary penalties and politician preferences

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Pastine, Ivan 
Pastine, Tuvana 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2609
Date Issued
07 September 2009
Date Available
26T15:29:34Z November 2010
Abstract
With politician preferences over policy outcomes, the effect of a contribution cap with monetary penalties for exceeding the cap is starkly different from the case with an indifferent politician. In contrast to Kaplan and Wettstein (AER, 2006) and Gale and Che (AER, 2006), a cap is never neutral on the expected cost of contributions nor on the policy outcome. Furthermore more restrictive caps can lead to increased aggregate contributions. When the penalty for exceeding the cap is small enough that it is impossible to suppress all contributions, the influence of money on policy is minimized with a binding but non-zero cap and maximized with no cap.
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Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP 09 12
Keywords
  • All-pay auction

  • Campaign finance refo...

  • Soft money

  • Explicit ceiling

  • BCRA

Classification
D72
C72
Subject – LCSH
Campaign funds--Law and legislation--Ireland
Campaign funds--Mathematical models
Ireland--Politics and government
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Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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