Political Competitiveness

Casey B. Mulligan, Kevin K. Tsui

NBER Working Paper No. 12653
Issued in October 2006

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We appreciate the comments of Gary Becker, Roger Myerson, Chad Syverson, Sven Wilson, workshop participants at Buffalo, Harvard, and The University of Chicago, and the financial support of the University of Chicago's Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. We thank Jose Plehn-Dujowich for pointing out the close analogy between our political model and patent race models. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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