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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer's knowledge (information) regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096774
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
Becker, Johannes - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768170
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...
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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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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
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law : Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Matter, Ulrich - 2015
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
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Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2021
. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one policy over another to make the lobbying opposition less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314863
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Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …
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