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Entry And Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers

Governments frequently intervene to support domestic industries, but a surprising amount of this support goes to ailing sectors. This is explained with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, policy is influenced by pressure groups that incur lobbying expenses to create rents. In expanding industries, entry...

Tags: Vertical industries, London School of Economics, rent, government, industry

White papers 2007-05-01

The State, Democracy And The Limits Of New Public Management

The point of departure of our analysis on the evolving role of the state in contemporary society is offered by the innovations introduced by e-government within the democratic, administrative and bureaucratic processes of the modern state. A vast literature on this topic presents e-government as a great opportunity to innovate...

Tags: London School of Economics, e-government, innovation, analysis

White papers 2007-01-01

Economics And Politics Of Alternative Institutional Reforms

This paper compares the economic consequences and political feasibility of reforms aimed at reducing barriers to entry deregulation and improving contractual enforcement legal reform. Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of firms entrepreneurship and the average quality of management meritocracy. Legal reform also reduces financial constraints on entry, but...

Tags: Regulations, London School of Economics, entrepreneurship, deregulation, barrier, financial

White papers 2007-01-01

Additional Resources

Forest guardians, forest destroyers; the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand

Forest guardians, forest destroyers; the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand. Forsyth, Tim and Andrew Walker. U. of Washington Press 2008 302 pages $25.00 Paperback Culture, place, and nature SD235 Environmental...

Articles 2008-06-01

Governing finance; East Asia's adoption of international standards

Governing finance; East Asia's adoption of international standards. Walter, Andrew. Cornell U. Press 2008 235 pages $35.00 Hardcover Cornell studies in money HG187 When the economies of Asian nations went sour in...

Articles 2008-05-01

Oil wars

Oil wars. Ed. by Mary Kaldor et al. Pluto Press 2007 294 pages $29.95 Paperback HD9560 Edited by Kaldor (director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics, UK), Karl (political...

Articles 2008-05-01

Russia; 1762-1825; military power, the state, and the people

Russia; 1762-1825; military power, the state, and the people. Hartley, Janet M. Praeger 2008 318 pages $120.00 Hardcover Studies in military history and international affairs DK52 From 1762 through 1825, Russia was...

Articles 2008-05-01

Pensioners may be hit with top-rate tax whack.

Treasury takes with one hand and gives with another. Maryrose Fison Thousands in Britain's most vulnerable age demographic could find themselves paying maximum tax for government failures to pay pension contributions. Last Christmas the government agreed to recompense people whose...

Articles 2008-03-20

Business Minister Timms calls for end to sterile North/South divide debate.

M2 PRESSWIRE-14 January 2008-UK Government: Business Minister Timms calls for end to sterile North/South divide debateC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14012008 Business Minister Stephen Timms has today called for an end to the sterile "North/South divide" debate, and announced that...

Articles 2008-01-14

Report: Kelo laws had very little effect on economic development

Dozens of laws restricting the use of eminent domain in the wake of a landmark 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling have not hamstrung economic development as some predicted, according to a new report from the Institute for Justice. The Virginia-based institute is a libertarian law firm that...

Articles 2008-01-14

Protesters gain closure in closed-scheme fight.

The government has been applauded by industry experts for agreeing to a bail out package for the 140,000 disenfranchised workers who lost money when their pension schemes went bust. The announcement follows a critical report by government directing actuary Andrew Young which follows...

Articles 2007-12-20

Brown fails to support stricken UK pensioners.

Byline: Gordon Brown has shattered hopes for a plan to compensate pensioners Hopes to help save thousands of pensioners whose employers' schemes have gone bust were dealt a blow last week after Gordon Brown overruled plans for a AGBP725m government bail out,...

Articles 2007-12-13

Global Civil Society 2006/7.(Book review)

GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY 2006/7 Mary Kaldor, Martin Albrow, Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, editors-in-chief London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007 382 pages, paper, $50.00 From aid to victims of natural disasters to...

Articles 2007-12-01

Explaining the Structure of the Audit Industry

As I mentioned last month, the doctoral program in accounting at the Sauder School of Business received thesis proposals from three promising young scholars this summer. I've already discussed the first of these proposals-Serena Wu's study of the effect of corporate governance on the efficiency of executive compensation-and this month...

Articles 2007-10-01

spotlight Sheila O'Grady; Protecting restaurant owners' revenues.(People)

Byline: Brandon Glenn Job: President, Illinois Restaurant Assn., since April 25. Vitals: 40 years old; bachelor's in humanistic studies, St. Mary's College, 1989; graduate degree in economics, London School of Economics, 1990; law degree, University of Notre Dame, 1993; director of...

Articles 2007-05-28

Long Island's most contentious eminent domain battles

The Supreme Court decision affirming local government's right to take property for the common good led to a certain amount of "tearing out of hair and rending of clothing," as one Long Island attorney puts it. Mostly, says another lawyer, it was a "non- event." Both...

Articles 2007-04-06

Threat to extend travel ban to family of Mugabe

A minister warned yesterday that the Government was prepared to extend the European travel ban on leading figures of Robert Mugabe's regime amid claims that the Zimbabwean President's daughter was studying in London. Ian McCartney, the Foreign Office minister, said he was considering expanding the ban...

Articles 2007-03-27

Blair's guru sets out his stall for Brown

Professor Anthony Giddens, author of The Third Way and intellectual godfather of New Labour, is a hard man to pin down. After days of radio silence an email arrives confirming he can be interviewed; it's just that he's tied up in meetings with Colonel Gaddafi. 'Am in Libya at the...

Articles 2007-03-17

Brought to book: Pound forced to face up to debts

"Steve Pound, tattooed bruiser, here!" came the call to Pandora, from Ealing North's answer to Samuel L. Jackson. Yesterday, I mentioned that the MP had signed off his resignation from the Government over replacing Trident nukes with a dramatic biblical reference similar to Jackson's use of...

Articles 2007-03-16

Government to launch review into private equity tax breaks

Ed Balls, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, has turned up the heat on the private equity industry with a review of the tax regime used by buyout firms. Mr Balls will launch the review during a keynote speech at the London Business School today aimed...

Articles 2007-03-08