This paper examines the reasons why corruption and policy distortions tend to exhibit a high degree of persistence in … and (2) lobbying high-level government politicians to resist legal reforms designed to improve judicial efficiency and … eliminate corruption. The analysis predicts that in politically unstable regimes the institutions necessary to monitor and …

. In particular, we discuss the joint impact of trade openness and political uncertainty. Our theory predicts that the …. Political uncertainty has a positive effect on environmental policy as it reduces lobbying efforts. Applying our model to a … unique data set of primarily developing countries, the empirical findings support the theory and are robust under alterntive …

This study explores the linkages between trade policy, corruption, and environmental policy. We begin by presenting a … policy; ii) corruption reduces environmental policy stringency; and iii) the effect of trade liberalization (corruption) on … environmental policy is conditional on the level of corruption (trade openness). Using panel data from a mix of 30 developed and …

lobbying are not restricted to the lobby's host-country but spill over to other member countries and have ambiguous effects on …

corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …

Recent evidence suggests that special interest groups significantly affect tropical deforestation through lobbying. We … land conversion. We investigate the effects of lobbying on the cumulative level of resource conversion and examine how … trade policy influences the distortions created by political corruption. We derive testable predictions that are analyzed …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … itself, which performs an anti-corruption task - with the payment of illegal contributions, and provide general conditions …

public life. Cheaper plomo and more resources subject to official discretion are associated with more frequent corruption and … cheaper plata can lower the ability of public officials. Protecting officials from accusations of corruption (immunity) will … decrease the frequency of corruption and may increase the quality of politicians if the judiciary is weak. These predictions …

, environmental lobbying has a huge beggar-thy- neighbour element …