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Raising rivals' costs with environmental regulation: An intertemporal lobbying approach
Körber, Achim - 1995
-identical producers within the same industry, lobbying for tighter environmental rules turns out to be an important strategy of raising …-industrial competition engage in counter-lobbying and when they remain silent. …
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Lobbying against environmental regulation vs. lobbying for loopholes
Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin - 2003
We analyze the determinants of environmental policy when two firms engage in two types of lobbying against a … restriction on allowed pollution: General lobbying increases the total amount of allowed pollution, which is beneficial for both … firms. Private lobbying increases the individual pollution standard of the lobbying firm, but has a negative or zero effect …
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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? Evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012
Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18
Existing research shows that members of Congress made informed trades prior to the passage of the STOCK Act of 2012. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on non-public information. However, the question of whether...
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Electoral cycles in macroprudential regulation
Müller, Karsten - 2019
Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable electoral cycle in the run-up to 221 elections across 58 countries from 2000 through 2014. Policies restricting mortgages and consumer credit are systematically less likely to...
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Did politicians use non-public macroeconomic information in their stock trades? : evidence from the STOCK Act of 2012
Karadas, Serkan; Schlosky, Minh Tam; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-18
Existing research shows that members of Congress made informed trades prior to the passage of the STOCK Act of 2012. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on non-public information. However, the question of whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588160
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Beyond Ownership : State Capitalism and the Chinese Firm
Milhaupt, Curtis J. - 2015
's policy objectives. We explore the significant implications of this argument for theory, policy, and law …
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Can a Sovereign Protect Investors from Itself? Tribal Institutions to Spur Reservation Investment
Haddock, David D. - 2012
A bilateral danger of underperformance exists when two parties sink investments with payoffs dependent on the behavior of the other. There are five general categories of defense against that danger: (1) Legal action against a misbehaving co-investor; (2) Reliance on a reputation for...
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Accountability, Ethics, and Policy Implementation within Public and Private Sector Contracts for Public Goods and Services : Credit Bureaus as a Public Good
Strickland, MAHLP, MPA (DHA), MiEsha - 2017
American public administration as a whole is based on the United States Constitution and historical founding eras. As for public administration, it is based on constitutional, democratic, political, and administrative values. “The American founders gave us a constitutional system that embraces...
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Legal Hypergraphs
Coupette, Corinna; Hartung, Dirk; Katz, Daniel Martin - 2023
Complexity science provides a powerful framework for understanding physical, biological, and social systems, and network analysis is one of its principal tools. Since many complex systems exhibit multilateral interactions that change over time, in recent years, network scientists have become...
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Transnational Hedge Fund Regulation
Engert, Andreas - 2010
After the global financial crisis, systemic risk regulation has taken center stage. Many consider hedge funds a potential threat to financial stability. Regulating hedge funds, however, is necessarily a transnational challenge because no national government alone can effectively control the...
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