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LOBBY ACTIVITIES AND THEIR EVOLUTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION CONTEXT
Vasilcovschi, Nicoleta; Oanta, Stefan Ilie - In: CES Working Papers 6(2A) (2014) August, pp. 171-185
paper we explain how lobby activities help to analyse and design the decisions that affect the general interest. …Beginning with the 20th century, lobby activities started to be developed and today the influence of the lobbying is … of the concept of lobby at the international level and how this activity can influence European decision-makers. We …
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Policy Persistence and Rent Extraction
Friedrich, Silke - CESifo - 2013
The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...
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Information transmission and inefficient lobbying
Lima, Rafael Costa; Moreira, Humberto - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 282-307
analyze the effects of information transmission in a Grossman and Helpman lobby game. Information transmission leads to two … agency costs. One refers to the cost of signaling and the other to the cost of screening the lobby's competitiveness. The …
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Taxes versus quotas in lobbying by a polluting industry with private information on abatement costs
Miyamoto, Takuro - In: Resource and Energy Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 141-167
We present a model of lobbying by a polluting industry with private information on pollution abatement costs and compare taxes with quotas under such conditions. We also examine the effect of private information on lobbying activity and social welfare under these two instruments. It is found...
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The Prediction Value
Koster, Maurice; Kurz, Sascha; Lindner, Ines; Napel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We introduce the prediction value (PV) as a measure of players’ informational importance in probabilistic TU games. The latter combine a standard TU game and a probability distribution over the set of coalitions. Player i’s prediction value equals the difference between the conditional...
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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Firm characteristics and influence on government rule-making: Theory and evidence
Aisbett, Emma; McAusland, Carol - In: European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) C, pp. 214-235
An adversarial game is used to model a firm's intrinsic and exerted influence over a regulator. Data from the World Business Environment Survey provide strong evidence in support of model hypotheses across a wide range of government agents, countries, and regulatory areas. Of particular...
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From economic structure to power structure : a structural approach
Gazon, Jules - Service d'Économie Internationale et Interrégionale, … - 2000
Power is absent in many economic studies, though everyone knows that social and economic agents often look to increase their own influence on the behaviour of others. In this paper, a power structure is associated to an economic structure, the power resulting from the influence transmitted and...
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257421
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The influence of Lobbying on EU Democracy
ȘTEFAN, Carmen - In: Europolity – Continuity and Change in European … 6 (2012) 1-2, pp. 35-50
. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate/show that European lobby has a positive impact on European Union democracy …, purpose that will be achieved through making a lobby overview which will include it’s main characteristics and features. This …, democracy and lobby, in order to highlight three aspects: the role that lobbying plays, the link created between lobby and …
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