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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010

Are national or multinational firms better lobbyists? This paper analyzes the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels for national and multinational firms. We identify three...

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Liberal principles for social welfare relations in infinitely-lived societies

Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009

This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to infinitely-lived societies. First, a novel characterisation of the inegalitarian leximax social welfare relation is provided based on the Individual Benefit Principle,...

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What does it take to sell environmental policy? : an empirical analysis of referendum data

Halbheer, Daniel (contributor); Niggli, Sarah (contributor); … - 2003 - June 2003, revised April 2005

We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...

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Self-reinforcing market dominance

Halbheer, Daniel; Fehr, Ernst; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2007

Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms...

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Strong subjectivism in the Marxian theory of exploitation : a critique

Veneziani, Roberto; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2009

This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo … exploitation index can be constructed. It is argued that a minimal objectivism is necessary in exploitation theory, whereby … related to the 'New Interpretation' ([1]; [3]). It is argued that it captures the core intuitions of exploitation theory and …

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Exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour : an axiomatic approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009

Roemer's (1982, 1988) classical approach and all the crucial insights of exploitation theory are generalised, proving that …

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Merger negotiations and ex-post regret

Gärtner, Dennis (contributor); … - 2007

We consider a setting in which two potential merger partners each possess private information pertaining both to the profitability of the merged entity and to stand-alone profits, and we investigate the extent to which this private information makes ex-post regret an unavoidable phenomenon in...

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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation

Darai, Donja; Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2009 - Revised version

predicted by theory, an increase in the number of firms from two to four reduces investments. However, a positive effect is … observed for a switch from Cournot to Bertrand, even though theory predicts a negative effect in the four-player case. This …

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A product-market theory of industry-specific training

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills that are sufficiently …

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Social democracy and distributive conflict in the UK : 1950 - 2010

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...

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