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The Democratization of Rent Seeking in Greece
Moutos, Thomas - 2013
We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried, via strategic positioning and rent-seeking activities, to influence economic policy outcomes during the postwar decades. We split the postwar decades in three periods: the...
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Politics and IMF Conditionality
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - CESifo - 2013
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...
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Do IMF and World Bank Influence Voting in the UN General Assembly?
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2006
Using panel data for 188 countries over the period 1970-2002 this paper empirically analyzes the influence of the IMF and the World Bank on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. Countries receiving adjustment programs and larger non-concessional loans from the World Bank vote more...
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Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence IMF Decisions? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - CESifo - 2006
We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using panel data for 191 countries over the period 1951 to 2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in...
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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The Dependence of Bilateral Aid on Other Bilateral Giving
Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - CESifo - 2013
Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …
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Interest Groups and Government Spending in Italy, 1876-1913
Fiorino, Nadia - 2009
In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public expenditure programs. Starting from the economic...
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Repeated Lobbying by Commercial Lobbyists and Special Interests
Groll, Thomas - 2016
Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where special interests employ professional intermediaries called...
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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups Improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Van Winden, F. A. A. M. - 2021
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the...
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Does Centralization Affect the Number and Size of Lobbies?
Redoano, Michela - 2021
Previous research has shown that if countries "merge", (i.e. move to centralized policy choices) the effect is to reduce lobbying. However empirical evidence suggests that this is not always the case. This paper attempts to explain the empirical evidence in a two-jurisdiction political economy...
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Immunity
Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - CESifo - 2013
Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our...
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