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Optimal linear contracts under common agency and uncertain central bank preferences

Ciccarone, Giuseppe; Marchetti, Enrico - In: Public Choice 150 (2012) 1, pp. 263-282

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Optimal central banker contracts and common agency: a comment

Campoy, Juan; Negrete, Juan - In: Public Choice 137 (2008) 1, pp. 197-206

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Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of the initiative process

Matsusaka, John - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 3, pp. 345-366

Voter initiatives are important for policy making in many countries. While much research shows that the initiative process affects policy choices, almost no evidence explains how the initiative process affects policy. Initiatives might change policy directly through voters approving laws that...

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Policy errors in executive and legislative decision-making

Holcombe, Randall; Ryvkin, Dmitry - In: Public Choice 144 (2010) 1, pp. 37-51

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Inefficient households and the mix of government spending

Anderberg, Dan - In: Public Choice 131 (2007) 1, pp. 127-140

A model is presented in which individuals can vote over government subsidies to a private good and over redistributive taxation. The subsidized good is purchased and shared by couples who act noncooperatively, while possibly being altruistic towards each other. The framework allows a separation...

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The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence

Congleton, Roger; Bose, Feler - In: Public Choice 144 (2010) 3, pp. 535-555

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A correction to Potters and van Winden (1992)

Weinreb, Jason; Ricart-Huguet, Joan - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 1, pp. 23-26

This note amends the model of informational lobbying presented in Potters and van Winden (Public Choice 74 … equilibria exist when the cost of lobbying is intermediate and the policymaker’s prior favors the interest group’s preferred … policy. However, we prove that a semi-separating equilibrium also exists under these conditions. Implications for lobbying …

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The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization”

Pyle, William; Solanko, Laura - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 1, pp. 19-41

Why are some business lobbies less benign in their external effects than others? In The rise and decline of nations (New Haven: Yale University Press, <CitationRef CitationID="CR44">1982</CitationRef>), Mancur Olson proposed that less-encompassing groups—i.e., those whose constituents collectively represent a relatively narrow range of...</citationref>

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Modeling local growth control decisions in a multi-city case: Do spatial interactions and lobbying efforts matter?

Schone, Katharina; Koch, Wilfried; Baumont, Catherine - In: Public Choice 154 (2013) 1, pp. 95-117

Our article analyzes the determinants of local growth control decisions, which are modeled as the result of a political struggle between different groups of voters and organized lobbies. We show that under specific hypotheses, a higher homeownership rate can induce lower levels of controls....

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Social capital, lobbying and community-based interest groups

Chamlee-Wright, Emily; Storr, Virgil - In: Public Choice 149 (2011) 1, pp. 167-185

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