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Political Connections and Tariff Evasion : Evidence from Tunisia
Rijkers, Bob - 2018
Are politically connected firms more likely to evade taxes? This paper presents evidence suggesting firms owned by President Ben Ali and his family were more prone to evade import tariffs. During Ben Ali?s reign, evasion gaps, defined as the difference between the value of exports to Tunisia...
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The Political Economy of Bank Lending : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
This study investigates the existence of political rents in bank lending, using a comprehensive loan-level data set of the universe of commercial loans in Mexico from 2003 to 2012. Identification relies on changes in the state of origin of a senate committee chairman as a source of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969958
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Import Dynamics and Demands for Protection
Hillberry, Russell H. - 2017
What kinds of changes in foreign competition lead domestic industries to seek import protection? To address this question this paper uses detailed monthly U.S. import data to investigate changes in import composition during a 24-month window immediately preceding the filing of a petition for...
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Why Multi-Stakeholder Groups Succeed and Fail
Truex, Rory - 2017
Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government, private sector, and civil society organizations, to drive implementation at the local level and serve as a force for transparency. In theory, the multi-stakeholder groups ideal is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976261
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Political Capture of Decentralization : Vote-Buying Through Grants-Financed Local Jurisdictions
Khemani, Stuti - 2017
A recent trend in decentralization in several large and diverse countries is the creation of local jurisdictions below the regional level -- municipalities, towns, and villages -- whose spending is almost exclusively financed by grants from both regional and national governments. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976483
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Political Connections and Firms : Network Dimensions
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2018
Business and politicians' interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analyzed with a binary approach, i.e. either a firm is connected to a politician or not. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. This paper uses use a unique data set for seven economies that documents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920023
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Lobbying for Capital Tax Benefits and Misallocation of Resources During a Credit Crunch
Zaourak, Gabriel Roberto - 2018
lobbying. For the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09, this paper shows that lobbying activity intensified, driven by large firms … endogenous lobbying, the paper studies the aggregate consequences of this rise in lobbying activity. When calibrated to U ….S. micro data, the model generates an increase in lobbying that matches the magnitude and the cross-sector and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922883
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Can Foreign Lobbying Enhance Development? The Case of Tourism in the Caribbean
Gawande, Kishore - 2016
issues. The authors empirically study whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context …There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747695
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Lobbying and Agricultural Trade Policy in the United States
Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - 2015
The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060085
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Aging, Trade, and Migration
Chisik, Richard - 2017
international trade as well as trade and immigration policy. An aging society can see a welfare-reducing reduction in its share of … manufacturing output and this reduction is magnified by a decrease in trade costs (an increase in globalization). Immigration can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968721