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Essays in microeconomic theory

Kartik, Navin - 2004

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The political economy of the Greek crisis : collective action perspectives

Manoli, Panagiota - In: Greece : economics, political and social issues, (pp. 177-196). 2012

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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation

Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001

In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...

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The political economy of renewable energy policies in Germany and the EU

Strunz, Sebastian; Gawel, Erik; Lehmann, Paul - 2015

In this paper, we employ a public choice perspective to analyze the development of policies for renewable energy sources (RES) in the EU in general and in Germany more specifically. In doing so, we explain the main characteristics of current RES policies in the EU by reference to the...

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms : conference paper

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2013

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

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Precise control over legislative vote outcomes : a forensic approach to political economics

Matter, Ulrich; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2016

We propose a forensic approach to investigate the politico-economic forces that influence narrow vote outcomes in legislative assemblies. Applying nonparametric estimation techniques to a data set covering all roll call votes between 1990 and 2014, we can identify the existence of precise...

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The spillover effects of good governance in a tax competition framework with a negative environmental externality

Batina, Raymond G.; Galinato, Gregmar - 2014

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How elections matter : theory and evidence from environmental policy

List, John A.; Sturm, Daniel - 2006

largely determined by lobbying, we find strong effects of electoral incentives. …

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The political economy of collective bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2002

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the...

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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%

De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2013

private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

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