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Bank lobbying : regulatory capture and beyond
Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas - 2019
In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … interpreted as a call for an outright ban of lobbying, they point in the direction of a need for rethinking the framework …
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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect
Bruckner, Markus - 2010
This paper examines the effect that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397619
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Winning connections? : special interests and the sale of failed banks
Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas; Wagner, Wolf; Zhang, Quxian - 2017
We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We … higher costs in such auctions, amounting to 16.4 percent of the total resolution losses. We also find that lobbying winners … have worse operating and stock market performance than their non-lobbying counterparts, suggesting that lobbying results in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763817
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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?
Mishra, Prachi - 2008
combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401673
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Protection for Free? : The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions
Mishra, Prachi - 2010
the value of protection, via costless messages (cheap-talk) and costly messages (lobbying). We estimate our model using … firm-level data on tariff suspension bills and lobbying expenditures from 1999-2006, and find that indeed verbal opposition … by import-competing firms, with no lobbying, significantly reduces the probability of a suspension being granted. In …
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Policy mix and the US trade balance
Adler, Gustavo; Osorio Buitron, Carolina - 2017
The strong US policy response to the 2008-09 financial crisis raised concerns about its impact (spillovers) on other countries, with great focus on the monetary stimulus but little attention to fiscal policy, despite their combined deployment. Using a sign-restricted structural VAR approach, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742995
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The U.S. oil supply revolution and the global economy
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - 2015
This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of falling oil prices due to the oil revolution in the United States, using a Global VAR model estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2 to 2011Q2. Set-identification of the U.S. oil supply shock is achieved through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445835
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Deconstructing the International Business Cycle : Why Does a U.S. Sneeze Give the Rest of the World a Cold?
International Monetary Fund - 2010
The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402644
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U.S. Monetary Shocks and Global Stock Prices
Laeven, Luc - 2010
This paper studies how U.S. monetary policy affects global stock prices. We find that global stock prices respond strongly to changes in U.S. interest rate policy, with stock prices increasing (decreasing) following unexpected monetary loosening (tightening). This impact is more pronounced for...
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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence From the United States
Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2003
We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is...
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