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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?
Mishra, Prachi - 2008
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677368
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Democracy and Reforms; Evidence From a New Dataset
Spilimbergo, Antonio; Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is limited to few reforms, countries, and years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital and banking sectors, product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646419
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Protection for Free? the Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions
Mishra, Prachi; Ludema, Rodney D.; Mayda, Anna Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. We develop a model in which firms influence the government by transmitting information about the value of protection, via costless messages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671307
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Do Interest Groups Affect US Immigration Policy?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661629