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The Political Economy of Financial Fragility
Feijen, Erik; Perotti, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
followed by financial crises. We explain this variation as the outcome of lobbying interests capturing the reform process. Even … by more leveraged entrepreneurs, protecting more established producers. As a result, lobbying may deliberately worsen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255930
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Bank Ownership and Financial Stability
Perotti, Enrico; Vorage, Marcel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256743
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The Impact of Lobbying on the Allocation of Political Authority
Falconieri, Sonia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257116
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257421
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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255797
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Informal Sector in Developed and less Developed Countries: A Literature Survey
Gerxhani, Klarita - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of thecontributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionallydifferent types of countries: developed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255865
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Experimental Public Choice
Schram, Arthur J.H.C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
experiments on public goods, participation games, rent-seeking and lobbying, and spatial voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256988