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Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia
Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
How do media affect voting behavior? What difference can an independent media outlet make in a country with state-controlled media? Our paper addresses these questions by comparing electoral outcomes and votes reported by survey respondents during the 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661897
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Sectoral Regulators and the Competition Authority: Which Relationship is Best?
Barros, Pedro Pita; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
consider how this relationship performs in the presence of institutional biases and lobbying efforts. It is found that the best … higher, and decisions are less vulnerable to lobbying. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662069
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Safety Nets Within Banks
Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study how banks should protect their credit departments against the external influence from potential borrowers. We analyze four mechanisms that are widespread in practice: a credit board with unanimity or simple majority, a hierarchy and an advisory system. A bank faces a trade-off between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791309
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization
Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530366
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A Political Economy Model of Infrastructure Allocation: An Empirical Assessment
Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so, we eliminate a potential source of bias in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666545
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Special Interest Politics and Aid Fungibility
Lahiri, Sajal; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We develop a political-economic model of aid fungibility. A donor country gives aid to a recipient government for the benefit of a target group. However, the recipient government accepts political contributions from a lobby group not targeted by the donor and transfers a fraction of the aid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667087
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How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy
List, John; Sturm, Daniel M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
popular view that choices on secondary policy instruments are largely determined by lobbying, we find strong effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789133
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A Political-Economy Theory of Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni; Rodriguez-Clare, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We develop a model where trade agreements - in addition to correcting terms-of-trade externalities - help governments to commit vis-a-vis domestic industrial lobbies. We explore how trade liberalization is affected by the characteristics of the political environment, such as the degree to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791399
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Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence
Campos, Nauro F; Giovannoni, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792187
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Political Activism, Trust, and Coordination
Battaglini, Marco; Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
maker does not react unless all of them are actively lobbying. In a ‘mutual discipline’ or high-trust equilibrium, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792452