Identifying the regulator's objective: Does political support matter?

Z Raff - Public Choice, 2023 - Springer
This paper relies on an incidence of environmental disaster to examine the specific objective
of a regulatory agency. Leveraging the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant …

Congressional elections and union officer prosecutions

M Downey - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Politicizing the investigation of politically active groups is harmful for both the justice system
and democratic accountability. I test whether members of the US Congress affect the …

Чувство субъектности: понятие, структура, диагностика

AM Kulyapina, AH Fam, AA Zolotareva - … /Educational Studies Moscow, 2024 - vo.hse.ru
Проведено исследование с целью адаптации русскоязычной версии шкалы
субъектности (Sense of Agency Scale, SoAS). Выборку составили 224 респондента …

Power Play: Political Contributions and Regulatory Capture in the Electric Utility Industry

M Van Orden - The Center for Growth and Opportunity, 2023 - thecgo.org
In the past two decades, rules limiting corporate political donations have relaxed. This has
led to a notable surge in corporate funding of political activities. Between 2000 and 2016 …

Public Firms and Regulatory Challenges: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement

A Le, LY Liu - Available at SSRN 4547151, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
There are widespread concerns regarding corporations' influence on government policy-
making. We provide descriptive evidence of firms' economic incentives to use investor-state …