I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors are competing with each other as they set taxes. Previous research has shown that governors are punished at the ballot box for raising taxes. However, Besley and Case (AER 199...

Brown, who is general campaign chairman, said that more than $9 million has already been secured in pre-announcement contributions and commitments. Of that amount, some $6,120,000 represents i n d i vidual gif ts and pledges f rom members of Rice University's Board of ^Governors, through its Governors' Nucleus Fund. The remaining $3 million of the total $9,381,597 campaign nucleus was obtained ...

Dr. D.-P. Song 1, C. Li 2, N. S. Colella 3, Prof. J. J. Watkins 6 Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, 01003, USA E-mail: [email protected] Prof. J.-H. Lee 5 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 160 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA Prof. X. Lu 4 School...

The November 2014 midterm election was the first election since key coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were implemented, including the Medicaid expansion and creation of the health insurance exchanges. The pre-election variability in the states' implementation of these provisions coupled with the large number of states selecting their next governor made the election important ...

Partisanship of state governors affects the efficacy US federal fiscal policy. Using close election data, we find partisan differences in marginal propensity to spend intergovernmental transfers: Republican less than Democratic governors. Correspondingly, Republican-led states have lower debt, (delayed) taxes, and initially economic activity. A New Keynesian model a monetary union implies sizab...