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What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?
Aretz, Bodo - 2012
In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096458
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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317144
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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106948
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108216
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Tacit Lobbying Agreements : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on low …-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …% of societies with finitely-repeated encounters. However, lobbying investments are not always profitable, and profit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132418
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
what condition an interest group prefers to direct its lobbying efforts to two parties or the two coalition and opposition … discipline. The lobbying efforts under un-enforced and enforced party discipline are also compared. Finally, we clarify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096476
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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Sojourner, Aaron - 2012
outcomes and in politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, and voter mobilization, this work adds a new perspective on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107689
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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies : The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Barnett, Andy - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086661
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Economic Science and Political Influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2013
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088344
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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Balles, Patrick - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906525