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The spillover effects of good governance in a tax competition framework with a negative environmental externality

Batina, Raymond G.; Galinato, Gregmar - 2014

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How elections matter : theory and evidence from environmental policy

List, John A.; Sturm, Daniel - 2006

largely determined by lobbying, we find strong effects of electoral incentives. …

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The political economy of collective bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2002

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the...

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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%

De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2013

private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

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Essays on the political economy of education reforms

Fabella, Vigile Marie - 2017

“Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools. Scholars will be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years.” Thomas Edison, 1913 A century after the great...

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Contributing or free-riding? : voluntary participation in a public good economy

Furusawa, Taiji; Konishi, Hideo - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 6 (2011) 2, pp. 219-256

We consider a (pure) public goods provision problem with voluntary participation in a quasi-linear economy. We propose a new hybrid solution concept, the free-riding-proof core (FRP-Core), which endogenously determines a contribution group, public goods provision level, and how to share the...

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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?

Roberti, Paolo - 2016

This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about … increase the effect of lobbying. If, however, the cost of running for office is sufficiently large, there is no effect of … lobbying on policy. The model thus demonstrates that uncertainty on the influence of special interests can lead to large …

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The Euro and the Yuan : some political economy considerations

Aminian, Nathalie; Fung, Kwok-chiu; Tse, Maurice Kwok-Sang - In: China economic policy review 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-13

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Non-market strategies that affect industry conditions

Benjamin, Scott - In: International journal of business environment : IJBE 8 (2016) 4, pp. 307-323

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The returns to lobbying : evidence from local governments in the "age of earmarks"

Gordon, Steven - In: Public finance review : PFR 47 (2019) 5, pp. 893-924

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