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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
Iaryczower, Matias; Spiller, Pablo T.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available … evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation …-of-powers systems. We provide conditions for judicial decisions to be sensitive to legislative lobbying, and find that lobbying falls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225056
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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M.; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247635
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Determinants of Technology Adoption : Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up
Oster, Emily F. - 2010
We estimate the role of benefits and peer effects in technology adoption using data from randomized distribution of menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal effects of peer exposure on adoption; using differences in potential returns we estimate effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757660
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Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2010
This paper develops a model of social interactions with endogenous association. People are assumed to invest in relationships to maximize their utility. Even in a linear-in-means model, when associations are endogenous, the effect of macro-group composition on behavior is non-linear and varies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760173
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The Economics of Conflicts of Interest in Financial Institutions
Mehran, Hamid - 2010
A conflict of interest exists when a party to a transaction could potentially make a gain from taking actions that are detrimental to the other party in the transaction. This paper examines the economics of conflicts of interest in financial institutions and reviews the growing empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760536
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Peers at Work
Mas, Alexandre - 2010
We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity worker could lower the effort of incumbent workers because of free riding; or it could increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760654
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Is Crime Contagious?
Ludwig, Jens - 2010
Understanding whether criminal behavior is %u201Ccontagious%u201D is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760744
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Extremism and Social Learning
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
When members of deliberating groups speak with one another, their predeliberation tendencies often become exacerbated as their views become more extreme. The resulting phenomenon -- group polarization -- has been observed in many settings, and it bears on the actions of juries, administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751699
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Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision
Bowen, T. Renee - 2016
Two heterogeneous agents contribute over time to a joint project, and collectively decide its scope. A larger scope requires greater cumulative effort and delivers higher benefits upon completion. We show that the efficient agent prefers a smaller scope, and preferences are time-inconsistent: as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980151
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980195