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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission

Figueiredo, John M. de; Tiller, Emerson H. - 2021

lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and … limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of … over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in early 1998. We find that the …

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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating

Dippel, Christian - 2015

In economies with a large informal sector firms can increase profits by reducing workers' outside options in that informal sector. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with plantation owners who lobby the government to enact coercive policies—e.g. the eviction...

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Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Formal Segregation Laws

Troesken, Werner - 2017

arrangements began to break down during the early 1900s did whites start lobbying municipal governments for segregation ordinances …

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Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 %...

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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California's Groundwater

Ayres, Andrew - 2017

Collective action to remedy the losses of open access to common-pool resources often is late and incomplete, extending rent dissipation. Examples include persistent over-exploitation of oil fields and ocean fisheries, despite general agreement that production constraints are needed. Transaction...

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Collective Action : Experimental Evidence

Anauati, Maria Victoria - 2015

We conducted a laboratory experiment to test the comparative statics predictions of a new approach to collective action games based on the method of stability sets. We find robust support for the main theoretical predictions. As we increase the payoff of a successful collective action (accruing...

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Factions in Nondemocracies : Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party

Francois, Patrick - 2016

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the factional arrangements and dynamics within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the governing political party of the People's Republic of China. Our empirical analysis ranges from the end of the Deng Xiaoping era to the current Xi Jinping...

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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2021

This paper studies both theoretically and empirically the determinants of group formation and of the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are especially interested in whether and how much the degree of heterogeneity in...

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An Empirical Model for Strategic Network Formation

Christakis, Nicholas A. - 2010

We develop and analyze a tractable empirical model for strategic network formation that can be estimated with data from a single network at a single point in time. We model the network formation as a sequential process where in each period a single randomly selected pair of agents has the...

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Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza : The Value of Collective Action

Bobashev, Georgiy V. - 2011

This paper examines positive externalities and complementarities in the use of antiviral pharmaceuticals to mitigate pandemic influenza. The paper demonstrates the presence of treatment externalities in simple epidemiological SIR models, and then through simulations of a Global Epidemiological...

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