Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …

' sources of influence (e.g., lobbying expenditures, proximity to the relevant legislative committee, prior affiliation with … sources of influence in actual regulatory treatment: Lobbying activities are more effective with increasing lobbying …

Will EMU accelerate or retard structural reform in labour and product markets? The theoretical literature is ambiguous … structural reform. However, it is much less clear whether progress can be ascribed to EMU membership. To explore further the … influence of monetary regime, the paper undertakes an econometric examination of the likelihood that countries undertake reform …

of over 1100 Chinese companies during the period of ownership reform (1997-2003), this paper examines the performance … methods taken to restructure the ownership of state firms, such as full versus partial privatization. For China, a state …-capitalist nation and the world's largest state sector under transition, the mix of state and private ownership -- partial privatization …