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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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Club-in-the-club : reform under unanimity

Berglöf, Erik (contributor) - 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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The Political Economy of Government Size

Tridimas, George; Winer, Stanley L. - 2004

We contribute to the political economy of public sector growth by integrating the analysis of three factors: (i) the 'demand' for government, stemming from attempts to coercively redistribute as well as from the ordinary demand for public services, often analyzed in a median voter framework;...

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Interest Groups and the Electoral Control of Politicians

Snyder, James M.; Ting, Michael M. - 2005

We study an under-utilized source of data on legislative effectiveness, and exploit its panel structure to uncover several interesting patterns. We find that effectiveness rises sharply with tenure, at least for the first few terms even after controlling for legislators institutional positions,...

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010

regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. -- Multinational enterprises ; regulation ; policy formation … ; lobbying ; interest groups ; foreign direct investment …

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Optimal Sets of Candidates

Fedderke, Johannes W. - 2011

We consider the optimal choice set of candidates standing for elected office. The decision dimensions are in the number of candidates standing for election, and the experiential base of the candidates standing for election as measured by the length of prior experience held by the candidates and...

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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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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. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439364

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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The returns to lobbying : evidence from local governments in the "age of earmarks"

Gordon, Steven - In: Public finance review : PFR 47 (2019) 5, pp. 893-924

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