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following the election, even after controlling forindustry-specific effects and firm-specific controls. This suggests that … following election, suggesting that contributionsgained firms preferential access to finance. …
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See 'Political Connections And Preferential Access To Finance: The Role Of Campaign Contributions' in <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBX-4P3DY39-4&_user=499884&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1004038141&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000024499&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=499884&md5=d48c00bd293b73b16a75eb763ff75630"><I>Journal of Financial Economics</I>, 2008, 88(3), 554-580</A>.
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following the election, even after controlling forindustry-specific effects and firm-specific controls. This suggests that … following election, suggesting that contributionsgained firms preferential access to finance.<P> …
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’t around the 1998 and 2002 elections. This suggests contributions help shape policy on a firm-specific basis. Using a firm … contributing firms substantially increased their bank financing relative to a control group after each election, indicating that … this rent seeking over the two election cycles to be at least 0.2% of GDP per annum. …
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Investor activists have waged a campaign to increase corporate political spending disclosure and board oversight since 2004, through shareholder resolutions filed for consideration at corporate annual meetings. In 2010, average support for these resolutions reached 30 percent - an unusually high...
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the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … competitiveness of elections and, therefore, candidates' spending. Only information disclosed prior to electoral campaigns impacts …
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incumbent can increase their chances of re-election is through increased fundraising. Political entrepreneurs see this … is a commonly held belief that politicians use this spending to improve their chances of re-election. One way that an …
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