Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … levels are always higher with multinationals than with national firms. However, the existence of lobbying may reverse this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a …

This working paper investigates unintended consequences of U.S. FDI in Switzerland in the 1950s-1960s: the increased … competition that U.S. firms generated within the national labor market and the challenge their hiring practices constituted for …: one that deals with the arrival of U.S. firms in Europe after 1945 and another that tackles the contribution of business …

substantially increased the maximum foreign equity allowed for firms in several sectors, including retail, food, defense, airlines … violations and push small firms out of business.2 In contrast to labor unions, business groups reacted positively to investment …

, Bauerle Danzman demonstrates how large domestic firms push to liberalize foreign direct investment (FDI) policies to … higher labour costs and increased productivity pressures, so well-connected domestic firms will prefer to limit access to … increasingly expensive, firms will be more willing to dismantle restrictive investment policies so that they may overcome liquidity …

Are national or multinational firms better lobbyists? This paper analyzes the extent of national environmental … regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … for national and multinational firms. We identify three countervailing forces, the easier-to-shut-down effect, the easier …