In this paper we examine the determinants of ex-ante state capture analyzing all the legal acts that have been passed in the period 1990-2011 in Poland. We find that during this the majority of legal acts were passed with the aim to satisfy the interest of particular groups. Furthermore, the...

This paper examines the impact of taxation of labor on investment in Research and Development. Given the central role of R&D as an en- gine of business expansion and economy growth, issue of estimating the barriers to R&D is a vital one, both from theoretical and practical point of view. We...