How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district where voters or their representative support the policy. In equilibr...

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Main Authors: Dahm, Matthias, Dur, Robert, Glazer, Amihai
Format: Article
Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47271/