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engagement with business users and consumer groups, not least to counter the expert lobbying of the operators. Additionally, it …
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base years, the more successful a pension reform the country achieved (after controlling for other factors, such as … demography). Our analysis shows that the reform effort varies widely across countries and over time. Indeed, only three countries … paper, we analyze factors that may facilitate or hamper pension reform quality of fiscal institutions, public debt, trade …
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base years, the more successful a pension reform the country achieved (after controlling for other factors, such as … demography). Our analysis shows that the reform effort varies widely across countries and over time. Indeed, only three countries … paper, we analyze factors that may facilitate or hamper pension reform quality of fiscal institutions, public debt, trade …
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just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …
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Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …
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Driven by the desire to fulfill the Maastricht fiscal criteria and pressed by mounting debt burdens that have accumulated over the past 30 years, a majority of EU-15 countries attempted to reduce their budget deficits during the 1990s. Yet, these nations have exhibited remarkable differences in...
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. We find that lobbying reduces the tax difference between coalition countries and outsiders and can thereby help to …, industrial lobbying can improve the prospects for climate cooperation. In this case, ”green protection for sale” turns into …
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Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …
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just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051609
This paper endeavours to illuminate the political and institutional factors that can help explain differing degrees of fiscal retrenchment in European Union countries for the time period 1990-2001. Several variants of the partisan approach and the veto players framework are elucidated and...
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