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Politically Connected Firms and the Environment
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2020Abstract This paper examines the environmental effect of political connections at the individual and organizational levels. We integrate political connections at both levels in a four-stage game-theoretic framework to study the political interplay between an entrepreneur, a bureaucrat and a government.
Haowei Yu, Lin Zhang
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Corporate political connections
2019This thesis primarily aims to examine the impact of political connections on firms. Hence, three independent research projects have been undertaken. The first and the second research projects explore the effect of different approaches to political connections during a volatile period of emerging democracy.
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Politically Connected Polluters Under Smog
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013I conduct an event study of an exogenous pollution shock-smog in the winter of 2013 to examine how the market values of firms in polluting industries and environmental protecting industries, respectively, responded in “the world's worst polluter”: China.
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Media/politics connections: beyond political parallelism
Media, Culture & Society, 2013Used by Seymour-Ure and by Blumler and Gurevitch the concept of “political parallelism” gained further prominence after Hallin and Mancini took it as one of their key variables in the comparison of media systems. The concept seems to work well for analyzing western societies, but how useful is it for dealing with the rest of the world?
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Corporate cash holdings and political connections
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2010We examine the relation between corporate liquidity and political connections measured via lobbying expenditures. This is an interesting question as many of the motives for holding cash should be diminished by political connections. Results suggest a significant and inverse relation between cash levels and lobby expenses and that the marginal value of ...
Hill, Matthew D. +3 more
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Political Connections Intensity: A New Measure for Political Connections and Firms' Outcomes
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019We investigate the impact of Chinese private-owned enterprises’ political connections on financing capabilities and investment behaviors analyzing the connections’ level and type.
Crupi, Antonio, Mu, Xihua
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Political Connections, Regulation, and Political Party
2017In this chapter, only one side of the revolving door (specifically, the one identifying the movement from politics to firms) is taken into account. Moreover, the focus is on the main political parties in the United States (the Republican and the Democratic Parties).
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Deadly Politics: Political Connections, Intergovernmental Transfers, and Mortality
2021Intergovernmental transfers finance most local government spending in developing and developed nations. The redistribution of government revenue across subnational governments, however, might be subject to distortions for political motives, such as political connections.
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2017
This chapter examines the history of the Islanders’ League (koinon ton nesioton), a federal organization centred on Delos, from the late fourth until the middle of the third century. It discusses the evidence of structure, key officials, and membership. The main source of evidence for the history of the League is a number of key decrees that the League
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This chapter examines the history of the Islanders’ League (koinon ton nesioton), a federal organization centred on Delos, from the late fourth until the middle of the third century. It discusses the evidence of structure, key officials, and membership. The main source of evidence for the history of the League is a number of key decrees that the League
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Political persistence, connections and economic growth [PDF]
, 2009 Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast with previous contributions, we develop a model of growth
Giorgio Bellettini +2 more
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