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Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the "optimal" level of government at which to delegate environmental … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …
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power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights the role of the local elite in lobbying for policies which favour … coordination costs across ethnic groups are relevant in determining the equilibrium lobbying behaviour. This results in ethnic …
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political power at the expenses of the median voter. In particular, investments in lobbying activities allow the rich to obtain … variable taxes and lobbying. In addition, it is established the existence of a transitional dynamics featuring convergence to a … balanced growth path, characterized by constant taxes and lobbying (and a constant growth rate of consumption and capital …
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across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we … measure historical lobbying and document several stylized facts. First, lobbying over industrial policies follows a hump …
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allow regional productivity to be taken into account. -- Wages ; collective bargaining ; federalism ; regions ; Belgium …
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Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...
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negotiations take place. We show that, in the absence of any distortion, sector-level bargaining ought to be less efficient than …
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Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater -...
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While most of the literature on employment protection has focused on government-mandated severance pay, it has recently been documented that a substantial share of severance payments derives from private contracts or collective agreements. This paper studies the determination of these payments....
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