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Many industrialized countries have experienced an increase in environmental awareness and support to green lobby groups in past decades. This paper develops a political-economy model, based on special-interest group politics, with two large countries, intra-industry trade, and transnational...
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emission standards are welfare superior to pollution taxes. Second, with interest groups, when the lobbying efficiency is small … that of the pollution tax. By contrast, when the degree of transboundary pollution is not large, and when the lobbying … interaction between the lobbying efficiency and the degree of transboundary pollution plays an important role in the welfare …
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emission standards are welfare superior to pollution taxes. Second, with interest groups, when the lobbying efficiency is small … that of the pollution tax. By contrast, when the degree of transboundary pollution is not large, and when the lobbying … interaction between the lobbying efficiency and the degree of transboundary pollution plays an important role in the welfare …
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In many countries, governments involve interest groups at early stages of political decisionmaking. The idea of this is to enhance the legitimacy of the policy decision and to curb later opposition to the implementation of the policy. We show that the way and timing of interest groups...
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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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