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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 …
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In this chapter, our goal is to discuss whether and how bank lobbying in the United States leads to regulatory capture …. First, we provide an overview of the importance of and motivations behind bank lobbying. Second, we examine the impact of … lobbying on banking regulation and supervision by reviewing recent empirical evidence. Third, we discuss the effect of the …
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This paper develops a model of political contributions in which a politician can either sell policy favors, or sell access. Access allows interest groups to share hard information with the politician in support of their preferred policy. Here selling access maximizes policy utility, while...
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In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … interpreted as a call for an outright ban of lobbying, they point in the direction of a need for rethinking the framework …
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The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we...
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