Prat, Andrea (1997) Campaign advertising and voter welfare. . Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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This paper investigates the role of campaign advertising and the opportunity of legal restrictions on it. An electoral race is modeled as a signalling game with three classes of players: a continuum of voters, two candidates, and one interest group. The group has non-veri¯able insider information on the candidates' valence and, on the basis of this information, o®ers a contribution to each candidate in exchange for a favorable policy position. Candidates spend the contributions they receive on non-directly informative advertising. This paper shows that: (1) A separating equilibrium exists in which the group contributes to a candidate only if the insider information about that candidate is positive; (2) Although voters are fully rational, a ban on campaign advertising can be welfare-improving; and (3) Split contributions may arise in equilibrium (and should be prohibited).
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://center.uvt.nl |
| Additional Information: | © 1997 the author |
| Divisions: | Economics STICERD |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M3 - Marketing and Advertising > M37 - Advertising D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2008 13:29 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 19:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5239 |
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