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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers...
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Lobbying expenditures on migration : a descriptive analysis : migration policies
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 560-604
In this article we carry out a descriptive analysis of lobbying expenditures on migration in the USA between 1998 and … 2005. While political action committees (PAC) contributions and lobbying are in general positively correlated, our results … suggest that this is not the case when it comes to lobbying on migration. As a result, any analysis of the role of lobbying in …
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Protection for sale with imperfect rent capturing
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We extend the protection for sale framework by modelling non tariff barriers. Explicitly introducing partial rent capturing leads to a testable specification that bridges the gap between the theoretical Grossman and Helpman (1994) model and its empirical implementation, where coverage ratios...
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Welfare leakage and immigration policy
Facchini, Giovanni; Razin, Asaf; Willmann, Gerald - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 50 (2004) 4, pp. 627-645
the determination of immigration policy as the outcome of a lobbying game between domestic interest groups and the … government. Our results indicate that there is evidence for welfare leakage and for lobbying as a determinant of immigration …
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …
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Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - In: Journal of international economics 85 (2011) 1, pp. 114-128
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Protection for sale with imperfect rent capturing
Facchini, Giovanni; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; … - In: The Canadian journal of economics 39 (2006) 3, pp. 845-873
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Do interest groups affect immigration?
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor);  … - 2007
the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … larger lobbying expenditures and higher in sectors where labor unions are more important. -- Immigration ; immigration policy …
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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?
Mishra, Prachi - 2008
combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401673
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Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing
Facchini, Giovanni - 2012
Structurally estimating the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model using coverage ratios that include non-tariff barriers leads to biased parameter estimates. We develop a quot;protection for salequot; theoretical framework consistent with the data, by explicitly allowing for non-tariff barriers....
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