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Der internationale Währungsfonds und die Weltbankgruppe : Funktionsweise und polit-ökonomische Bedeutung

Rose, Franz-Josef - 1995

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Toward a broader public-choice analysis of the International Monetary Fund

Willett, Thomas D. - In: Governing the world's money, (pp. 60-77). 2002

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IMF Surveillance and Financial Markets - A Political Economy Analysis

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2014

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...

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Zur politischen Ökonomie multilateraler Wirtschaftsorganisationen : ein Beitrag zur Reformdebatte der Vereinten Nationen

Steuernagel, Axel - 1997

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The Political Economy of IMF Voting Power and Quotas

Blomberg, S. Brock; Broz, J. Lawrence - 2008

We explore the governance structure of the International Monetary Fund, wherein voting power is explicitly tied to the size of member countries' financial contributions, known as quotas. By virtue of their large quotas, rich countries have the preponderance of voting power while developing...

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China's Accession to WTO and Shifts in the Agriculture Policy

Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2002

The overall goal of our paper is to explore this question of how China's policy will likely respond as the nation enters the WTO. Specifically, we will have three objectives. First, we briefly review China's existing agriculture policy and past performance of China's agriculture and how it has...

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Voting Power Implications of a Unified European Representation at the International Monetary Fund

Leech, Dennis; Leech, Robert - 2006

We consider some of the implications of a proposed reform of the voting system of the IMF in which EU countries cease to be separately represented and are replaced by a single combined representative of the European bloc. The voting weight of the EU bloc is reduced accordingly. We analyse two...

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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation

Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001

In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...

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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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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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