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International Institutions and Market Expectations: Stock Price Responses to the WTO Ruling on the 2002 U.S. Steel Tariffs.

Jensen, Nathan M - EconWPA - 2005

Thanks to Nitsan Chorev, Robert Connolly, David Leblang, Quan Li, Andy Mertha, Layna Mosley, Bumba Mukherjee, Eric Reinhardt, Peter Rosendorff, Matthew Slaughter, Andy Sobel, participants of the 2004 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting and the 2004 Duke Summer Institute on...

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Minimum Quality Standards and Equilibrium Selection with Asymmetric Firms

Bonroy, Olivier; Constantatos, Christos - EconWPA - 2005

In a vertically differentiated market with cost asymmetries, the risk dominance criterion selects the equilibrium where the high quality is produced by the efficient firm. We show that a sufficiently high Minimum Quality Standard reverses equilibrium selection. Hence, MQS may be used in order to...

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Gewährleisten umgesetzte WTO-Streitschlichtungsurteile offene Märkte? Eine Betrachtung am Beispiel des Zeitschriftenfalles

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - EconWPA - 2005

Theoretical analyses of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism suggest that the system contains only weak incentives for the implementation of rulings. Against this background, it is puzzling that the specific WTO procedure which deals with allegedly insufficient implementation is used only in...

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The Modern World: The effect of democracy, colonialism and war on economic growth 1820-2000

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to … the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism economically bad for colonies, does protectionism affect growth …

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Why is there an Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy?

Limão, Nuno; Panagariya, Arvind - EconWPA - 2003

Small economies rarely embrace free trade, a fact that is commonly explained as a consequence of the government's use of trade policy to redistribute income. But why is this redistribution typically biased in favor of import-competing sectors and is consequently trade restricting rather than...

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Private bills: a theoretical and empirical study of lobbying

Boylan, Richard - EconWPA - 1998

Interest groups lobby over a variety of issues including private bills. There are two striking facts about private bills introduced in the U.S. Congress. First, several scandals have involved Congressmen who were being bribed to introduce a private bill. Second, the number of private bills...

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Whose Ear (or Arm) to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy Making

Boehmke, Frederick J.; Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

Important conceptualizations of both interest groups and bureaucratic agencies suggest that these institutions provide legislatures with greater information for use in policy making. Yet little is known about how these information sources interact in the policy process as a whole. In this paper...

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Price-Capping Regulation as a Protectionist Strategy in Developing Countries

Lawrence, Peter; Mukherjee, Arijit - EconWPA - 2002

of protection. Strategic lobbying by such firms for a price-capping regulatory regime is, under certain conditions, one …. Counter-intuitively, we further discover that lobbying for regulation is to be expected where the incumbent firm is relatively … problem and consider the possibility of co-operation in lobbying. We then show that such co-operation, if possible, is always …

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Corruption and Political Competition

Damania, Richard; Yalcin, Erkan - EconWPA - 2005

special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition …

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Environmental Pressure Group Strength and Air Pollution: An Empirical Analysis

Binder, Seth; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2003

There is an established theoretical and empirical case-study literature arguing that environmental pressure groups have a real impact on pollution levels. Our original contribution to this literature is to provide the first systematic quantitative test of the strength of environmental...

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