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Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street.
- Source :
- Public Choice; Jun2013, Vol. 155 Issue 3/4, p211-228, 18p, 8 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper provides a public choice analysis of the 2008 banking bailout in the United States. The paper introduces heterogeneity of congressional districts into the common agency problem in special interest politics. District heterogeneity implies district-specific electoral constraints on legislators' ability to collect rents from, and cast dissonant votes in support of, special interests. An empirical analysis examines legislative voting on the initial bailout proposal, using campaign contributions to legislators from special interest groups and the importance of financial services for employment within congressional districts as the main explanatory variables. The empirical analysis corrects for possible endogeneity bias, using valid instruments, and considers several intuitive sub-sample estimations as alternative methods for addressing the endogeneity issue. The paper provides empirical evidence that campaign contributions from the financial services sector influenced legislative voting on the banking bailout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00485829
- Volume :
- 155
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Choice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 87391266
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-011-9888-6