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Corporate Influence and Political Corruption: Lessons from Stock Market Reactions to Political Events
Milyo, Jeffrey - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2013
professional lobbying. …
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Information Aggregation, Growth and Franchise Extension with Applications to Female Enfranchisement and Inequality
Ellis, Christopher J; Fender, John - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2010
We develop a model of voluntary gradual franchise extension and growth based on the idea that voting is an information aggregation mechanism. A larger number of voters mean more correct decisions are made hence more output, but also imply that any incremental output needs to be shared among more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672185
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Greece Political Crisis: New Parties and Old Ideas
Yu. Kvashnin. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 7 (2012)
The article deals with the programs of Greek political parties and key results of snap elections in May and June 2012. The main questions are: will the austerity policy, implemented since 2010, continue, what is in store for Greece, if further reforms become politically unacceptable, and what...
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Dual Citizenship Institution: A Pareto Improvement?
Oloufade, Djoulassi K.; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The right to hold dual citizenship is an important political institution that is being adopted by an increasing number of countries. We argue that this institution can generate important social and economic benefits beyond its political dimension. Dual citizenship recognition by a country allows...
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Democratic Errors
Ellis, Christopher J.; Fender, John - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2010
We combine Acemoglu and Robinson’s model of the economic origins of democracy with Lohmann’s model of political mass protest. This allows us to analyze the economic causes of political regime change based on the microfoundations of revolution. We are able to derive conditions under which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008553250
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Democratic Errors
Ellis, Christopher J.; Fender, John - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2008
In this paper we combine AcemogluÂ’s model of the economic origins of democracy with LohmannÂ’s model of political massprotest. This alllows us to provide ananalysis of the economic causes of political regimec hange based on the micro foundations of rebellion. We are able tod erive...
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Club-in-the-Club: Reform under Unanimity
Berglöf, Erik; Burkart, Mike; Friebel, Guido; … - Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Økonomisk Institut - 2009
In many organizations, decisions are taken by unanimity giving each member veto power. We analyze a model of an organization in which members with heterogenous productivity privately contribute to a common good. Under unanimity, the least efficient member imposes her preferred effort choice on...
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Lobbying: Buying and utilizing access
Mayer, Wolfgang; Mujumdar, Sudesh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper introduces an alternative to the lobbying literature's standard assumption that money buys policies. Our … much stronger lobbying incentives weaken the free-rider problem and raise incentives for lobby formation. Third, the model … yields testable hypotheses on: the determinants of lobbying incentives; the number of lobbying firms in an industry; and the …
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Lobbying: Buying and utilizing access
Mayer, Wolfgang; Mujumdar, Sudesh - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014), pp. 1-35
This paper develops a lobbying-by-firms model that draws on a more realistic characterization of the lobbying process …, modeling approach furnishes theoretical support for why one encounters different numbers of lobbying firms of varying sizes in …) casting out the role of money from the lobbying process. Theoretical legs are also furnished for the empirical finding of a …
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Modelling local growth control decisions in a multi-city case: Do spatial interactions and lobbying efforts matter?
Schone, Katharina; Koch, Wilfried; Baumont, Catherine - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 2009
predictions. The decision to raise the “taxe locale d’équipement” is influenced by the lobbying of land-related interest groups …
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