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Horizontal and Vertical Conflict : Experimental Evidence
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest arises when different constituencies support different policies, while a vertical conflict of interest emerges when those in charge of running the government acquire and retain...
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Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing
Facchini, Giovanni - 2005
Structurally estimating the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model using coverage ratios that include non-tariff barriers leads to biased parameter estimates. We develop a "protection for sale" theoretical framework consistent with the data, by explicitly allowing for non-tariff barriers. Introducing...
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Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking
Rothschild, Casey - 2011
Recent policy proposals have suggested taxing top incomes at very high rates on the grounds that some or all of the highest wage earners are engaged in socially unproductive or counterproductive activities, such as externality imposing speculation in the financial sector. To address this, we...
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Corruption, Inequality and Fairness
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past...
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Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining
Helpman, Elhanan - 1998
We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems … policies generated are not intermediate between policies that would result from pure lobbying or from pure legislative … contributions are very small, despite the fact that lobbying has a marked effect on policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472221
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Electoral Competition and Special Interest Politics
Grossman, Gene - 1994
We study the competition between two political parties for seats in a parliament. The parliament will set two types of policies: ideological and non-ideological. The parties have fixed positions on the ideological issues, but choose their non-ideological platforms to attract voters and campaign...
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Influencing Connected Legislators
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest...
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The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World
Engerman, Stanley L. - 2001
Most analysis of how the distribution of political power affects the patterns of growth has been confined to the late-twentieth century. One problem associated with a focus on the modern record is that processes that take place over the long run are not examined. We may all agree that...
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Innovation and Top Income Inequality
Aghion, Philippe - 2015
on the top 1% income share are dampened in states with higher lobbying intensity. Finally, from cross-section regressions … less so by incumbent innovators, and it is dampened in states with higher lobbying intensity. Overall, our findings …
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On the Political Economy of Land Value Capitalization and Local Public Sector Rent-Seeking in a Tiebout Model
Gyourko, Joseph - 1986
In this paper we examine the political economy. of capitalization in a Tiebout model when there is a rent-seeking public bureaucracy. A new approach is suggested for testing for the influence of successful local public sector rent-seeking on local property values. We present empirical evidence...
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