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Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2008

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 …

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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2005

alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play …

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Getting more work for nothing? Symbolic awards and worker performance

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne - 2010

We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the...

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Model of NGO regulation with an application to Uganda

Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2011

We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending, but imposes wasteful costs of...

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Peaceful coexistence? The role of religious schools and NGOs in the growth of female secondary schooling in Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012

BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the other hand,...

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Lobbying, corruption and political influence

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2006

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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Do interest groups affect immigration?

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - 2007

the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … larger lobbying expenditures and higher in sectors where labor unions are more important. …

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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...

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