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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …

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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000

lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and … limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of … over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in early 1998. We find that the …

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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating

Dippel, Christian - 2015

In economies with a large informal sector firms can increase profits by reducing workers' outside options in that informal sector. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with plantation owners who lobby the government to enact coercive policies--e.g. the eviction and...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy …

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Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Formal Segregation Laws

Troesken, Werner - 2017

arrangements began to break down during the early 1900s did whites start lobbying municipal governments for segregation ordinances …

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Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 %...

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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California’s Groundwater

Ayres, Andrew B. - 2017

Collective action to remedy the losses of open access to common-pool resources often is late and incomplete, extending rent dissipation. Examples include persistent over-exploitation of oil fields and ocean fisheries, despite general agreement that production constraints are needed. Transaction...

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Factions in Nondemocracies : Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party

Francois, Patrick - 2016

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the factional arrangements and dynamics within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the governing political party of the People's Republic of China. Our empirical analysis ranges from the end of the Deng Xiaoping era to the current Xi Jinping...

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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

Bouton, Laurent - 2016

This paper presents a dynamic political-economic model of total government obligations. Its focus is on the interplay between debt and entitlements. In our model, both are tools by which temporarily powerful groups can extract resources from groups that will be powerful in the future: debt...

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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World

Chen, Cuicui - 2016

A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive ones. Significant under-provision must be expected. International public goods are particularly...

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