Corporate reputation is becoming more important to managers and scholars around the
world. However, little is known about how much or why reputation differs across countries …

Conventional wisdom is that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in
rich countries and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint …

This paper is the first to use product-level data to examine empirically whether countries use
antidumping and safeguard exceptions to unwind commitments to lower tariffs in the face of …

Through cross-national surveys in the United States and China, this study investigates the
positive ripple effects of corporate leaders' CSR donations amid COVID-19 on multi-level …

The delegation of policy-competencies to the European Union has changed the context in
which national actors form their interests and represent them. Shaping European markets …

This book analyzes the influence of business in democratic politics. Advice from business
actors regularly carries more weight with policymakers than other interests because it refers …

Contribution payments and information are two important channels of lobbying influence.
This survey analyzes what is known about these channels in Germany from a political …

This article analyzes the political influence of business in the context of international
environmental cooperation. Locating the sources of business power in three distinct factors …

Mancur Olson's theory of the decline of nations is path-breaking in political economics. It has
been tested cross-sectionally in numerous empirical studies. We survey the existing results …

It is widely recognized that interest groups affect both microeconomic and macroeconomic
outcomes. However, few researchers have attempted to discern empirically the factors that …