Indirect influence,: lobbies interdependence and ecological protectionism

• Autores: Louis Jaeck, Julien Hanoteau, Gilbert Bougi
• Localización: Journal of economic research, ISSN 1226-4261, Vol. 20, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 169-198
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper analyzes the setting of sustainability standards, such as those recently implemented in Europe and in the United States, as a political compromise pressured by the lobbying of competing industries and under the indirect influence of ecologists. Using a common agency model of lobbying, we extend Yandle's theory of `Bootleggers and Baptists' of interdependence between interest groups.

    Paradoxically, the indirect and information-based influence of ecologists can lead to a less constraining standard. We show, in a context of trade liberalization, that this influence leads nonetheless to a tightening of standards in large countries