Determinants of corporate lobbying intensity in the lease standard-setting process

Corporate Lobbying Revisited

Corporate Lobbying for Environmental Protection

Much of the time, firms lobby against environmental protection, but there are major exceptions to this rule. DuPont, the leading ozone polluter in the 1980s, lobbied for a complete ban of its product. In 2015, in the run up to the Paris Agreement, Europe's six largest oil and gas companies lobbied for a global carbon price. This kind of political support is often pivotal for governments trying ...

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Determinants of Corporate R&d Intensity: Canadian Evidence

This paper empirically explores the determinants of corporate research and development (R&D) intensity in the Canadian context with a sample of 134 TSE companies. Specifically we investigate in cross-section the impact of various governance and firm-specific variables on firms’ R&D intensity. We find that, in the case of governance variables, percentage of inside director, Directors’ ownership,...

Evaluation of adverse effects in the standard-setting process.

Occupational exposure limits (OELs) were first introduced more than a century ago in Germany [1]. They were based on observations of people exposed at the workplace, and on experimental exposures of humans and animals, all accompanied by analytical determination of airborne occupational toxicants. The "acceptable concentrations for short-term and long-term exposure" were derived using crude sub...