Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71392 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP09/12
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
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.
Subjects: 
All-pay auction
Campaign finance reform
Soft money
Explicit ceiling
BCRA
JEL: 
D72
C72
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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