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Capture, Politics and Antitrust Effectiveness
Ciciretti, Rocco; Meraglia, Simone; Piga, Gustavo - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011
evidence on the Industry's behavior. The Industry can capture both the Principal (lobbying) for a reduced budget, and the … Principal's desired level of information gathering. Finally, a complementarity between lobbying of the Principal and capture of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205069
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Elected vs appointed public law enforcers
LANGLAIS, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2013
This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We …rst consider the case of an elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992370
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Elected vs appointed public law enforcers
Langlais, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - Centre de Recherche sur les Stratégies Économiques … - 2013
This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We first consider the case an elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690500
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The structure of fi…nes in the light of political competition
LANGLAIS, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2014
This paper analyzes the determinants of public law enforcement policies when citizens vote for the timing and level of fi…nes. We consider situations where citizens and politicians disagree on the value of the expected social harm associated with some activities. We fi…nd that citizens vote...
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Rent-Seeking Russia
Levin, M.; G. Satarov. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 1 (2014)
The Russian economy is in transition period "from plan to market", which is characterized by immature institutions and expansion of rent-seeking behavior. In this article, the authors consider rent as a?possible excess return above the minimum income needed to encourage an agent to implement the...
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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Corruption and Political Competition
Damania, Richard; Yalcýn, Erkan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083388
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The Economics and Politics of Safeguards - Political Economy of the Japanese Safeguard System for Agricultural Goods -
Harimaya, Kozo; Kagitani, Koichi - In: Journal of Economic Integration 23 (2008), pp. 927-952
This paper investigates the effect of political factors on safeguards. We present a simple model to show the relationship between political factors and safeguards, and empirically examine whether the Japanese safeguard system was influenced by the political factors. Our empirical analysis shows...
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Contests Among Bureaucrats
Bös, Dieter - University of Bonn, Germany - 2002
This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968363
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A Political Economy Model of Immigration Quotas.
Amegashie, J.A. - 2000
political lobbying process between a firm and a union. The union and the firm bargain over the wage of natives after the number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776802