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with the lobbying of perators. The issues are economically and technologically complex, with inquiries having to cut … through terminology, economics, lobbying and threats of litigation. The European Parliament scrutinises and adopts framework …
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procedures laid down in the Administrative Procedures Act, with rigorous lobbying before decisions, later subject to litigation …
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This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...
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potential reform of the economies concerned. Moreover, the estimation using the fixed-effect Poisson model and marginal effect … the determinants of reforms, is original in the sense that for questions of reform, the democracy factor had not yet been …
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How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various …-term lobbying infrastructure investments in a simpli_ed tax-and-spend model, the deviations between majority desires and implemented …
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equilibrium setting, capital requirements and lobbying contributions are determined as the outcome of bargaining between banks and … politicians. We show that bankers and politicians agree on lobbying contributions and capital regulation that renders banks … capital regulation standards from international agreements eliminate lobbying incentives, yielding an efficient and fair …
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Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …
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), pharmacies, and social health insurers (SHI) in Germany based on drug prices. Since the health care reform of 2004, these …
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Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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