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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the Us Congress
Bombardini, Matilde - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between the size of interest groups in terms of voter representation and the interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share of an interest group and its contributions to a...
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Antitrust and Regulation
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007
Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing....
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Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Closure of the Cincinnati Post
Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2010
The Cincinnati Post published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the Cincinnati Enquirer as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant on the Post, incumbents became more likely to win...
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Media Coverage of Political Scandals
Puglisi, Riccardo - 2009
We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We find that Democratic-leaning newspapers -- i.e., those with a higher propensity to endorse...
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Culture, Institutions and Democratization
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier...
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The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Political and Economic History
Wallis, John Joseph - 2021
The critical role of governance in the promotion of economic development has created intense interest in the manner in which the United States eliminated corruption. This paper examines the concept of corruption in American history; tracing the term corruption to its roots in British political...
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Myths and Realities of American Political Geography
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ward, Bryce Adam - 2021
The division of America into red states and blue states misleadingly suggests that states are split into two camps, but along most dimensions, like political orientation, states are on a continuum. By historical standards, the number of swing states is not particularly low, and America's...
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Currency and Financial Crises of the 1990s and 2000s
Razin, Assaf - 2011
We survey three distinct types of financial crises which took place in the 1990s and the 2000s: 1) the credit implosion leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy economies with fixed exchange rate regimes of...
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Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis
Campello, Murillo - 2010
This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...
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Why Has the Yen Failed to Become a Dominant Invoicing Currency in Asia? A Firm-Level Analysis of Japanese Exporters' Invoicing Behavior
Ito, Takatoshi - 2010
the yen's status as an only fully convertible currency in Asia, two patterns stand out as puzzling features of an … exports to advanced countries, and second, the prevalence of US dollar invoicing in Japanese exports to East Asia even though … Japanese firms grew; and (2) the production/trade structure of Japanese electronics companies in Asia in which final products …
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