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Economic Growth, Social Development and Interest Groups

Sekhar, C.S.C. - 2012

This paper attempts to analyse the relative roles of political institutions and interest groups in policy formulation and the relationship between economic growth and social development. The main conclusions of the study are that while there is excess intervention by government in the sphere of...

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The Politics of Growth : Can Lobbying Raise Growth and Welfare?

Julio, Paulo - 2010

This paper aims at analyzing the e ects of lobbying over economic growth and primarily welfare. We model explicitly the … equilibrium, despite stimulating growth, lobbying restricts the market structure and reduces welfare when compared to the free …-entry outcome. However, once general equilibrium considerations are taken into account, we find that lobbying may improve welfare …

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How Encompassing is a Dictator's Interest? Interest Groups, Targeted Repression, and Economic Development

Congleton, Roger D. - 2009

This paper explores some implications of the existence of politically active groups within dictatorships. The analysis reaches the more or less plausible conclusion that dictators will treat supporters differently than opponents and that a dictator often lacks a significant encompassing...

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Institutions, Lobbying, and Economic Performance

Heckelman, Jac C. - 2015

, economic freedom that emerges as a result of costly lobbying efforts may be less fruitful. In an extreme case, costly lobbying … efforts may even negate the growth-enhancing effect of economic freedom. To the extent that lobbying efforts constitute an … of lobbying is greater the more efficient is the institutional environment. Panel data analysis reveals the expected …

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Meritocracy, growth, and lessons from Italy's economic decline : lobbies (and ideologies) against competition and talent

Codogno, Lorenzo; Galli, Giampaolo - 2022

"The book draws lessons on the importance of rewarding merit for economic growth by analysing Italy's decline in the past few decades. Connections rather than merit are a long-standing feature of the Italian elites, even in the corporate sector. This became a significant problem when Italy could...

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Modern Robbers : Special Interest Groups and Braking the Economic Growth

Yanovskiy, Konstantin - 2013

Small well-motivated groups, including state officials, public and community activists, politicians, etc., proved their capacity to impose burden on the economy. The power to do so in modern Market Democracies could be reached without “unsheathing the sword”. Old fashioned redistribution...

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On the Optimal Size of Public Sector Under Rent-Seeking Competition from State Coffers

Park, Hyun; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Vassilatos, Vanghelis - 2021

This paper incorporates competition for fiscal transfers (or, equivalently, rent seeking from state coffers) into a standard general equilibrium model of economic growth and endogenously chosen fiscal policy. The government generates tax revenues, but then each selfinterested individual agent...

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Reconsidering the modernization hypothesis : the role of diversified production and interest‐group competition

Pittaluga, Giovanni Battista; Reghezza, Alessio; … - In: European journal of political economy 65 (2020), pp. 1-9

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Survey of interest groups influence in an economy

Papadakis, Haris Nikolaos; Atsalakis, George Stelios - In: International journal of sustainable economies … 8 (2019) 2, pp. 49-67

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Productivity growth and welfare in a model of allocative inefficiency

Cothren, Richard D.; Radhakrishnan, Ravi - In: Journal of economics 123 (2018) 3, pp. 277-298

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