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Lobbying and agricultural trade policy in the United States
Gawande, Kishore S. - 2006
"The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...
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The structure of lobbying and protection in U.S. agriculture
Gawande, Kishore S. - 2005
the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed … sectors the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … strong association between the average U.S. tariff on goods that benefit from U.S. export subsidies and lobbying spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522478
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The role of importers and exporters in the determination of the U.S. tariff preferences granted to Latin America
Silva, Peri Agostinho da - 2005
Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in determining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522681
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Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor
Keefer, Philip - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523273
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Local and community driven development : moving to scale in theory and practice
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P. (contributor);  … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393458
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Auctions with endogenous participation and quality thresholds : evidence from oda infrastructure procurement
Estache, Antonio - 2009
"Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition tends to be limited. Competition is the single most important factor toward auction efficiency and anti-corruption. However, the degree of competition realized is closely related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394147
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Energy demand models for policy formulation : a comparative study of energy demand models
Bhattacharyya, Subhes C. - 2009
"This paper critically reviews existing energy demand forecasting methodologies highlighting the methodological diversities and developments over the past four decades in order to investigate whether the existing energy demand models are appropriate for capturing the specific features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394160
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On the financial sustainability of earnings-related pension schemes with "pay-as-you-go" financing and the role of government indexed bonds
Robalino, David A. - 2006
"In this paper the authors reconsider the idea of an earnings-related pension system with reserves invested in indexed government bonds as a mechanism to both ensure financial sustainability and improve security. They start by reviewing the characterization of the sustainable rate of return of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522096
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How substitutable is natural capital ?
Markandya, Anil - 2006
"One of the recurring themes in the sustainability literature has been the legitimacy of using an economic framework to account for natural resources. This paper examines the potential for substituting between different inputs in the generation of income, where the inputs include natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522257
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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence
Shankar, Rashmi - 2005
"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...
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