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Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2008
Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...
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The German Health Care System in an International Comparison: Assessments and Reform Options
Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 3, pp. 56-63
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How much income redistribution? An explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009
This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of fund capture. A model is presented where rich voters can block redistribution by buying the votes of some poor voters. In equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and...
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Corruption and Political Competition
Damania, Richard; Yalcýn, Erkan - 2008
special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition …
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Lobbying and political polarization
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2002
on the nexus between pre-election interest group lobbying and electoral competition. …
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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden
Liang, Che-Yuan - 2008
size and find a large negative council size effect. This pattern provides indirect evidence for the occurrence of lobbying …. The direction of the effect could be explained by free-riding incentives in individual lobbying effort contribution caused …
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The Impact of Lobbying on the Allocation of Political Authority
Falconieri, Sonia - 2001
This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …
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Bank Ownership and Financial Stability
Perotti, Enrico; Vorage, Marcel - 2010
We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 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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Delegation and Rewards
Vetter, Stefan - 2012
between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …
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