This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

affect, via a lobbying process, the choice of public policy. We also consider how interest groups and lobbying activities …

individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods applied to both the decision to smoke or not and to the decision …