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Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China
Amiti, Mary - 2005
entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522635
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Location decisions and nongovernmental organization motivation : evidence from rural Bangladesh
Fruttero, Anna - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523261
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Endowments, location or luck? : evaluating the determinants of sub-national growth in decentralized Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil - 2008
"Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from central government to district and city governments, which today number more than 450. But the performance of these districts has varied widely. This paper attempts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520990
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Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia
Deichmann, Uwe (contributor) - 2005
"How effective are public interventions in addressing significant regional disparities in formal manufacturing concentration in a developing economy? Deichmann, Kaiser, Lall, and Shalizi examine the aggregate and sectoral geographic concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522721
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Foreign informational lobbying can enhance tourism : evidence from the Caribbean
Gawande, Kishore S. - 2009
"There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context … of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394128
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522241
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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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Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis
Keefer, Philip - 2004
"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522896
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Inefficient lobbying, populism, and oligarchy
Campante, Filipe R. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523093