costs implied by CCX membership. Most strikingly, the progress of proposed greenhouse gas legislation (the Waxman …

We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions. -- unions ; endogenous membership …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … average partial effect of union membership. -- dismissal ; free-riding ; trade union membership ; survey data …

We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent … that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk …. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that membership in IOs does indeed increase inflows of FDI. Controlling for …

We study the choice of club membership, when member-countries national governments set their tax policies non …-cooperatively. Federal policy (in the form of club membership) has a higher constitutional status than national policies (in the form of … show that equilibrium membership decreases with any factors that generate Nash-type inefficiencies; growing capital …