Lobbying, Inside and Out: How Special Interest Groups Influence Policy Choices

The Economics of Lobbying and Special Interest Groups

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universtität Zürich gestattet hierdurch die Drucklegung der vorliegen-den Dissertation, ohne damit zu den darin ausgesproch-enen Anschauungen Stellung zu nehmen.

Special interest groups

The Society has several Special Interest Groups which organise meetings and other activities to enable the exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology. These are informal groups of professionals interested in specific technical areas of meteorology. The groups are primarily a way of communicating at a specialist level and are organized and often financed by the group ...

Special interest groups

The Society has several Special Interest Groups which organise meetings and other activities to enable the exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology. These are informal groups of professionals interested in specific technical areas of meteorology. The groups are primarily a way of communicating at a specialist level and are organized and often financed by the group ...

Special Interest Groups

Special-Interest Groups and Volatility

This paper explores the relationship between special-interest groups and volatility of GDP growth. In an unbalanced panel of 108 countries, we find a significant negative relationship between the number of interest groups in a country and the volatility of GDP growth. Citation: Coates, Dennis, Jac Heckelman, and Bonnie Wilson, (2007) "Special-Interest Groups and Volatility." Economics Bulletin,...