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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021

Many factors including incentive-pay, powerful shareholders, and takeover threats push for-profits managers towards maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance institutions, and the only check on managers are...

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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...

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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet - 2022

We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global “best practices” including comprehensive assessments, detailed...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining

Helpman, Elhanan; Persson, Torsten - 2022

We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems … policies generated are not intermediate between policies that would result from pure lobbying or from pure legislative … contributions are very small, despite the fact that lobbying has a marked effect on policies …

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Political-Economy Arguments for a Uniform Tariff

Panagariya, Arvind; Rodrik, Dani - 2022

political motives for excessive protection. First, a free-rider effect may be conducive to less lobbying under a uniform tariff …

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The Failure of Free Entry

Gutiérrez Gallardo, Germán; Philippon, Thomas - 2022

scale nor technological costs can explain the decline in the Q- elasticity of entry, but lobbying and regulations can. We … relative to large ones, particularly in industries with high lobbying expenditures. We conclude that lobbying and regulations …

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The Pace of Progress at Superfund Sites : Policy Goals and Interest Group Influence

Sigman, Hilary - 2014

Bureaucracies may set priorities for their workload according to social goals or the desires of concentrated private interests. This paper explores bureaucratic priorities empirically by studying Superfund, the federal program for cleaning up contaminated sites. It examines the amount of time...

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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Orden, David - 2015

This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...

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Influencing Connected Legislators

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest...

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