Yet another look at vote buying in the UN General Assembly

Fang-Yi Chiou1, Simon Hug2, Bjørn Høyland 3

First version: September 2019; this (incomplete) version: Sep 25, 2019

Abstract

From the very early writings assessing how Ronald Reagan's policy of asking the state department to report on UNGA votes to ensure punishement and rewards for aid recipients, strategic interactions have been considered as important. A clean way to assess these interactions has, however, eschewed scholars so far. In this paper we propose a statistical strategic model that allows for everything. Replicating analysis we find that some of their findings are likely due to a mis-specification of the model. Correcting for this mispecification suggests that . . . In parallel we introduce a statistical strategic model that allows for correlated errors and ensures for equilibrium behavior by all actors.



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