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The Revolving D0or for Political Elites : Policymakers’ Professional Background and Financial Regulation

Wirsching, Elisa - 2018

dataset including details on officials' professional careers before and after their tenure and data on financial regulation …

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Bank Lobbying : Regulatory Capture and Beyond

Igan, Deniz - 2018

lobbying on banking regulation and supervision by reviewing recent empirical evidence. Third, we discuss the effect of the …In this chapter, our goal is to discuss whether and how bank lobbying in the United States leads to regulatory capture …. First, we provide an overview of the importance of and motivations behind bank lobbying. Second, we examine the impact of …

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Gains from early support of a new political party

Leonardi, Marco; Mossucca, Rossella; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2019

We study the potential benefits and mechanisms of firms' political connections by analyzing the Italian experience, where, in the early nineties, Silvio Berlusconi, a rich TV tycoon, became the leader of the conservative political coalition. Using firm-level data, we find that the 101 companies...

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A political argument for inefficiency under severe political pressure

Nisani, Doron - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 12 (2023), pp. 1-13

Who watches the watchmen? In order to examine the role of the governance separation of powers principle in economics, we developed a theoretical model of a structurally failed market with and without political pressure. We conclude that if the executive branch is dedicated to its public duty,...

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Railways Reform and Electricity Reform in Russia, and the Role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy

Pittman, Russell W. - 2003

The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the...

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Economic Evidence in Regulatory Disputes : Revisiting the Court-Regulatory Agency Relationship in the US and the UK

Mantzari, Despoina - 2018

This article examines the issue of the appropriate scope of review of economic evidence enshrined in the discretionary assessments of utility regulators in the US and the UK. It advances a balance of institutional competencies approach to the question of the degree of deference owed to the...

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms : conference paper

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2013

question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a …Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … government and firm. We compare the resulting equilibrium regulation levels, outputs and welfare for national and multinational …

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Energy services at local and national level in the transition period in Hungary

Valentiny, Pál - 2008

Energy industries are mainly organised at national level in Hungary, however local governments have their specific role in the system. Local governments have been major performers in the first period of the transition process: they were entitled to receive 25 per cent of the shares in electric...

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Energy services at local and national level in the transition period in Hungary

Valentiny, Pál (contributor) - 2008

. Local governments are also in the forefront of the energy saving programmes. -- Energy industries ; regulation ; local …

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State Mandates for Program Carriage Dispute Resolution : Welcome to the Wide World of Regulation

Esbin, Barbara S. - 2009

by the proposed state legislation would be preempted by federal regulation. Section 616 of the Communications Act, giving …

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