A long-standing concern in political economy is whether outcomes are efficient in political equilibrium. Recent contributions have examined the efficiency/inefficiency of policy choices from a theoretical point of view. The aim of this paper is to examine such issue empirically. Building on...

This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes,...

Este trabajo tiene por proposito ayudar a dilucidar los factores explicativos de la pobre "performance" argentina tanto en lo economico como en su funcionamiento social mas general. Se argumenta que la clave esta en los aspectos institucionales. En particular, la interaccion entre determinadas...