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The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Long Hours and Work Schedules

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Tan, Jian Qi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have important effects on non-pecuniary working conditions. We study the effects of right-to-work laws, which removed agency shop protection and weakened union powers on long hours...

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Putting the Lid on Lobbying : Tariff Structure and Long-Term Growth when Protection is for Sale

Nunn, Nathan - 2006

It has long been recognized that a country's tariffs are the endogenous outcome of a rent-seeking game whose equilibrium reflects national institutions. Thus, the structure of tariffs across industries provides insights into how institutions, as reflected in tariff policies, affect long-term...

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Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

Gawande, Kishore - 2005

investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …

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Enforcement, Private Political Pressure and the GATT/WTO Escape Clause

Bagwell, Kyle - 2004

We consider the design and implementation of international trade agreements when: (i) negotiations are undertaken and commitments made in the presence of uncertainty about future political pressures; (ii) governments possess private information about political pressures at the time that the...

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Negotiated Trade Restrictions with Private Political Pressure

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1987

In this paper we consider a home government with political pressure to restrict trade, at the expense of foreigners. The foreign country is compensated with an income transfer, which can be thought of as a portion of the tariff revenues or quota rents. In this setting the two countries should...

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Lobbying Behind the Frontier

Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The … effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the … technological frontier. We discuss theoretical mechanisms driving lobbying of firms away from the technological frontier: not only …

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Optimal Tariffs and Trade Policy Formation : U.S. Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Era

Irwin, Douglas A.; Soderbery, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

well as industry lobbying data. We find that tariff levels are largely determined by firm lobbies, but about about 5 …

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Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

about voters' identities or their views of how the world works. We identify a complementarity between worldview politics and …

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Lobbying Physicians : Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices

Bergman, Alon; Grennan, Matthew; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We draw upon newly merged administrative data sets to study the relationship between payments from medical technology firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them) may facilitate the transfer of valuable information to...

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Land and Credit : A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2009

Economists have argued that a high concentration of land holdings in a country can create powerful interest groups that retard the creation of economic institutions, and thus hold back economic development. Could these arguments apply beyond underdeveloped countries with backward political...

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