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Working the System : Firm Learning and the Antidumping Process
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2004
This paper takes the first systematic look at how prior experience by US firms in filing US AD petitions affects future AD filing activity and outcomes. Such prior experience may affect both the cost of filing petitions, as well as the likelihood of successful outcomes and dumping margin...
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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480980
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Integrated Political Strategy
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2009
This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions and streams for potential investigation. The paper develops a framework to explain why, when, and how a firm will pursue multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463597
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Firm-Level Political Risk : Measurement and Effects
Hassan, Tarek A. - 2017
associated with a given political topic tend to increase lobbying on that topic, but not on other topics, in the following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453684
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Political Connections, Allocation of Stimulus Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier
Choi, Joonkyu; Penciakova, Veronika; Saffie, Felipe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the role of firms' political influence on the effectiveness of government spending using ARRA as a laboratory. Through an IV approach, we show that a 10 percentage points increase in the share of politically connected spending lowers the job creation effect of stimulus by 33 percent at...
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way--Evidence from German Reunification
Triebs, Thomas P. - 2013
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical data from the Ifo Institute's Business Climate Survey. We find that firms' forecasts improve as they age. We also exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms...
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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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The Pace of Progress at Superfund Sites : Policy Goals and Interest Group Influence
Sigman, Hilary - 2000
Bureaucracies may set priorities for their workload according to social goals or the desires of concentrated private interests. This paper explores bureaucratic priorities empirically by studying Superfund, the federal program for cleaning up contaminated sites. It examines the amount of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471057
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Obstacles to Optimal Policy : The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms
Kroszner, Randall S. - 2000
This paper provides a positive political economy analysis of the most important revision of the U.S. supervision and regulation system during the last two decades, the 1991 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). We analyze the impact of private interest groups as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471187
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Elected versus Appointed Regulators : Theory and Evidence
Coate, Stephen - 2000
This paper contrasts direct election with political appointment of regulators. When regulators are appointed, regulatory policy becomes bundled with other policy issues the appointing politicians are responsible for. Since regulatory issues are not salient for most voters, regulatory policy...
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