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We demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected, impact on stock prices. Exploiting the voting record of legislators whose constituents are the affected industries, we show that the votes of these “interested” legislators capture important information seemingly...
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paper investigates a novel aspect of firm behavior in distress: how financial health affects a firm׳s lobbying and … measured by credit default swap spreads, lobbied more. We also show that the amount spent on lobbying was associated with a …
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The policy-making and distributive effects of lobbying is a disturbing and highly debated issue in many developing … of lobbying and interest-groups in developing countries and specifically Turkey will therefore constitute the theoretical … underpinning of this work while the absence of in-depth numeral indicators for the interest groups’ lobbying power dictates that …
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run-up to the global financial crisis. We construct a detailed database documenting the lobbying activities, campaign … spending on lobbying by the financial industry and network connections between lobbyists and the legislators were positively …
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Multi-level governance theory states that interest groups play an important role in decision-making processes. However, the implications of the assumed trend from government to multi-level forest governance for interest groups have not been sufficiently examined. This paper examines the case of...
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entry costs in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is …
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protection. Strategic lobbying by such firms for a price-capping regulatory regime can deter entry. We show that a regulatory … multiple incumbents threatened by entry and also extend our analysis to incorporate lobbying by the entrant. …
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well as on political science findings. We consider in this paper that lobbying groups have different strategies for … the market of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). It illustrates the political links between public opinions, lobbying … participation procedures planned by the 2001/18 Directive on the lobbying efficiency of NGOs and biotechnology firms, and on the …
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be larger than the costs of lobbying activities under centralization. …
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