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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model … taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market … entrepreneurial entry and pro-entrepreneurial policies make foreign entrepreneurs less aggressive. Using the World Bank Doing Business …

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Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under an individualistic and a collectivist culture. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy faster...

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Technological Foundations of Political Instability

Dagaev, Dmitry; Lamberova, Natalia; Sobolev, Anton; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

There has been a wide-spread belief that elections with a wide franchise following removal of an oppressive dictator lead to establishment of a government that is not vulnerable to mass protest. At the same time, most of the post-World War II non-constitutional exits of recently-installed...

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Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans

Konrad, Kai A.; Leininger, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action in a conflict with an external enemy. We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self-enforcing norm coordinates the members on efficient...

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Public Action for Public Goods

Banerjee, Abhijit; Iyer, Lakshmi; Somanathan, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of...

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Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labour Markets

Rama, Martin; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper uses the common agency approach to analyse the joint determination of product and labour market distortions in a small (developing) open economy. Capital owners and union members lobby the government on both tariffs and minimum wages, while other factors of production are not...

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Centralized decision making against informed lobbying

Costa Lima, Rafael; Moreira, Humberto; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We re-address the tradeoff between centralized and decentralized decision making of local policies when policymakers are subject to capture by special interest groups. In particular, we consider the case where lobbies have private information about their ability to exert influence. We find a new...

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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%

De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

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Market-based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy

Della Vigna, Stefano; Durante, Ruben; Knight, Brian; La … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

An extensive literature has studied lobbying by special interest groups. We analyze a novel lobbying channel: lobbying … politically motivated spenders of similar magnitude, stressing the economic importance of this lobbying channel. These findings …

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Multidimensional Cheap Talk

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In this Paper we extend the cheap talk model of Crawford and Sobel (1982) to a multidimensional state space and policy space. We provide a characterization of equilibria. We focus on the question of feasibility of information transmission, for large degrees of conflict of interests between the...

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