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Making the U.S. Lobbying Disclosure Act Work as Intended: Implications for the European Transparency Initiative
Holman, Craig - 2007
revisions of legislation controlling lobbyists and their activities, in particular the US Lobbying Disclosure Act. Conclusions … briefing expresses a preference for mandatory registration regimes and full financial disclosure of all professional lobbying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009638644
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Globalization and social governance in Europe and the United States
Bücherl, Wolfgang (contributor); Jansen, Thomas (contributor) - European Commission / Forward Studies Unit - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636985
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Committees and special interests
Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - 2003
Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...
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CER - Centre for European Reform
Centre for European Reform <London>
The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many political, economic and social challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636990
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Lobbying in the European Union : Current rules and practices
Bosche, Lars; Lehmann, Wilhelm - 2003
This working document provides a photography of the current state of affairs in EU lobbying, addressing questions such … analysis of recent academic work on lobbying and special interest representation. Moreover, the paper gives an overview of … current rules and practices concerning lobbying in the parliamentary institutions of the Member States, based on research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636034
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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan
Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003
Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635881
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Identifying fiscal shocks and policy regimes in OECD countries
Arcangelis, Giuseppe de; Lamartina, Serena - 2003
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a SVAR model some fiscal policy regimes, i.e. a u0094set of rulesu0094 for the implementation of fiscal policies. Second, we identify the fiscal policy shocks related to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635887
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US, Japan and the euro area
McAdam, Peter - 2003
There has been much discussion of the differences in macroeconomic performance and prospects between the US, Japan and the euro area. Using Markov-switching techniques, in this paper we identify and compare specifically their major business-cycle features and examine the case for a common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635889
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Measuring the time-inconsistency of US monetary policy
Surico, Paolo - 2003
This paper offers an alternative explanation for the behavior of postwar US inflation by measuring a novel source of monetary policy time-inconsistency due to Cukierman (2002). In the presence of asymmetric preferences, the monetary authorities end up generating a systematic inflation bias...
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