power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State … 12% outside, capturing $410 million in land value gains out of the total $710 million from rezoning. The marginal gains … rezoning decisions across Queensland and Australia in the last few decades, suggests that many billions of dollars of economic …

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … that considers the implications of trust networks. A bond of trust may permit an implicit quid pro quo to substitute for a … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …

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 … influence using data for about 4000 firms in 25 transition countries. Our results show that (a) lobbying and corruption are …

This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the …