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It is well documented that firms develop nonmarket strategies in an effort to shape public policy changes to their advantage. But are there no limits to this? This paper argues that there is, in fact, an important limitation, internal to the firm, that stems from the necessity for firms to...
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To what extent should public utilities regulation be expected to converge across countries? When it occurs, will regulatory convergence lead to positive outcomes for utility sectors? This paper attempts to provide new answers to these questions. Building on the core proposition of the New...
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lobbying. In a non-cooperative equilibrium, each country chooses the level of R&D subsidy independently and fails to … internalizes technology spillover but is vulnerable to lobbying by politicians from each country, who attempt to free-ride on the …. Furthermore, this threshold is an increasing function in the effectiveness of lobbying. This paper also considers the possibility …
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Building on a framework that assesses the attractiveness of ‘political markets’ – where firms transact over public policies with government policy-makers – we develop hypotheses regarding the success or performance of firms’ nonmarket strategies. We propose that the ability of firms to...
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agricultural protection in the US: (i) legislator preferences, (ii) electoral incentives, or (iii) lobbying. Using data on the roll … agricultural protection, but that legislator preferences and lobbying play a role, too. Moreover, legislator preferences and …
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being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power holders is tested. The resulting interesting finding is … that, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying increase the probability of state fragility by mitigating the …
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The paper is an attempt to observe the effects of the development of rent-seeking or lobbying groups on the growth pace … policies implemented both at micro and macro level after the 1980s revealed the importance of lobbying effect on policies … examples of the literature on lobbying and its effects on growth. Taking from Mancur Olson’s inspiring book, The Rise and …
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Consider an all-pay auction with interdependent, affiliated valuations and private budget constraints. We characterize a symmetric equilibrium for the case of two players. In contrast with the second-price auction, making budgets more severe can depress the bids of unconstrained bidders
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simultaneously offers a menu contract to a common provider of the public good in order to induce greater supply, and a lobbying game …
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The policy-making and distributive effects of lobbying is a disturbing and highly debated issue in many developing … of lobbying and interest-groups in developing countries and specifically Turkey will therefore constitute the theoretical … underpinning of this work while the absence of in-depth numeral indicators for the interest groups’ lobbying power dictates that …
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