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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties
Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372470
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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000
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/10012471024
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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
Iaryczower, Matias - 2005
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/10012467366
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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations
Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334377
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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471632
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Political Activism and the Provision of Dynamic Incentives
Camous, Antoine - 2020
This paper studies the determination of income taxes in a dynamic setting with human capital accumulation. The goal is to understand the factors that support an outcome without complete redistribution, given a majority of relatively poor agents. In the analysis, the internal dynamics of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479178
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Runoff Elections in the Laboratory
Bouton, Laurent - 2019
We study experimentally the properties of the majority runoff system and compare them to the ones of plurality rule, in the setup of a divided majority. Our focus is on Duverger's famous predictions that the plurality rule leads to a higher coordination of votes on a limited number of candidates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479899
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Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Social Problems
Battaglini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study a dynamic model of environmental protection in which the level of pollution is a state variable that strategically links policy making periods. Policymakers are forward looking but politically motivated: they have heterogeneous preferences and do not fully internalize the cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482565
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Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem
Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Guiteras, Raymond; Levinsohn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Each person's sanitation behavior can affect the health of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629514
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Group Corruption via Sequential Bargaining in a Hierarchical Organization
Kung, Fan-chin; Wang, Ping; Wen, Quan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a framework of group corruption via back-door negotiations between an outside initiator and an authority of decision-makers in a hierarchical organization. We examine the role played by the architecture of a multi-tier authority and determine under such a structure how bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938728