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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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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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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 …

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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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The Political Economics of Non-democracy

Egorov, Georgij V. - 2020

We survey recent theoretical and empirical literature on political economics of non-democracies. Dictators face many challenges to their rule: internal, such as palace coups or breakdown of their support coalition, or external, such as mass protests or revolutions. We analyze strategic decisions...

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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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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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