terms of economic growth and inflation. The number of interest groups (as a proxy for their influence) is shown to have an … the inflation rate. -- Interest groups ; economic performance ; growth rate ; inflation rate …

US. A recent study by Hönigsberger (2008) for Germany basically concludes union members to overwhelmingly stick to their … contradicting empirical results, based on a newly constructed dataset for Germany. In a VAR analysis we find that the degree of … unionization of parliamentary members has a negative impact on economic growth and at the same time increases inflation while …

groups ; political business cycles ; growth ; unemployment ; inflation …

-series analysis of data from the German lobby-list and estimate macro-variables as economic growth and inflation using data on the …