Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …

main institutional driver of the country's catch-up industrialization. In this paper, we test this assertion by evaluating … productivity. In line with theories of late industrialization, we also find evidence that the effect of public credit was larger in …

demonstrating that environmentalists can be favourable to a decrease in the local environmental policy. The impact of lobbying …