This article argues that a democracy's regulations governing the disclosure of campaign and political finance depend on the country's electoral system. Specifically, the likelihood that disclosure regulations for competitors in legislative elections extend to individual candidates (and not...

This paper studies the relationship between wage negotiations and the mode of foreign market penetration in a general equilibrium framework. We analyze the incentives of firms to set up a foreign production facility for improving their bargaining position vis-à-vis local unions. This renders...

The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...