{"title":"Why Interest Groups With Divergent Goals Collaborate: Evidence From Climate Regulation","authors":"Dahyun Choi","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Why do interest groups with contrasting interests and policy goals work together? I present a theory of collaborative policy production and show that interest groups can achieve higher policy gains through collaboration, even though their ideal policy goals may diverge significantly. To test theoretical results, I introduce original measurement strategies that reveal systematic patterns in which firms and environmental groups invest in joint efforts to improve fine-grained details of policy to achieve greenhouse gas emissions targets. The analysis, using public comments spanning 2010–2020, demonstrates that comments written jointly by environmental groups and firms contain more information that can contribute to the quality of policy implementation than individual efforts alone, despite compromises on policy preferences. These findings highlight the hidden dynamics of regulatory politics, wherein divergent political goals are reconciled for high-quality policy implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"38 1","pages":"46-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecpo.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bipartisan Firms","authors":"Emanuele Caggiano, Lorenzo Rocco","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Corporate donations significantly shape the landscape of US presidential elections, yet we have a limited understanding of how firms' internal finances and external political risks influence these contributions. Using a data set that merges firm-level information with campaign records from 1992 to 2020, we analyze the propensity, intensity, and distribution of corporate giving between parties. We find that while companies often employ a bipartisan donation strategy, they consistently exhibit a stronger preference for Republican candidates. We further show that escalating political polarization is associated with a 2% increase in the likelihood of donating and a 21.8% rise in total contributions, especially among non-research-oriented sectors. These patterns underscore the importance of both financial imperatives and broader political incentives in driving firms' campaign finance decisions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"38 1","pages":"18-45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146148027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanyin Li, Yuan George Shan, Rong Xu, Xingmei Xu, Yize Xu
{"title":"Anticorruption and Capital Market Pricing Efficiency: Evidence From China","authors":"Yanyin Li, Yuan George Shan, Rong Xu, Xingmei Xu, Yize Xu","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the impact of anticorruption on capital market pricing efficiency through stock price synchronization. Using a data set from 3188 of China's A-share listed firms with 20,673 firm-year observations, our results show that anticorruption significantly reduces stock price synchronization. We conduct a series of robustness checks, including difference-in-differences analysis, informal monitoring mechanisms, alternative explanatory variables, and excluding observations during the Global Financial Crisis, and the conclusions remain consistent. The mechanism analysis reveals that anticorruption improves corporate disclosure quality at the micro level and the degree of marketization and government-market relationship at the macro level, which reduces stock price synchronicity. This effect is more pronounced among state-owned enterprises (SOEs), especially local SOEs. This study presents empirical evidence regarding the logic of development and governance dynamics in emerging economies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1157-1178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xin Liu, Xiaoru Zhang, Tingyun Pang, Shidi Dong, Mei Lim
{"title":"Supply Chain Finance and Enterprise Supply Chain Configuration: Centralization or Diversification","authors":"Xin Liu, Xiaoru Zhang, Tingyun Pang, Shidi Dong, Mei Lim","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Under globalization and economic uncertainty, enterprises optimize supply chain configurations via supply chain finance (SCF). From the perspective of supply chain governance, we use A-share listed company data (2007–2021) and find that SCF reduces concentration and promotes diversification, especially in high-trust, uncertain environments. When the mechanism test is adopted, the supply and demand coordination cost and the financing cost and enterprise risk of core enterprises in the upstream and downstream transaction process can be significantly reduced, and the transparency of the supply chain can be improved. These features promote the diversified supply chain configuration of enterprises and ensure supply chain security.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"38 1","pages":"5-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146136207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prometheus Unbound: What Makes Fintech Grow?","authors":"Serhan Cevik","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The rise of financial technologies—fintech—has the potential to transform the financial landscape by extending the reach of services beyond geographic boundaries and introducing new, competitive sources of finance for both households and firms. But what drives fintech growth? Why do some countries experience more financial innovation than others? This article explores these questions using a novel data set covering 98 countries from 2012 to 2020. Through empirical analysis, it identifies key economic, demographic, technological, and institutional factors that influence the emergence and diffusion of fintech. The impact and statistical significance of these factors vary depending on the type of fintech instrument and the level of economic development—distinguishing between advanced and developing economies. The findings suggest that targeted policies and structural reforms can foster financial innovation, particularly by enhancing technological and institutional infrastructure and addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1145-1156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Spencer Jamison, Lauren L. Ferry, Witold J. Henisz
{"title":"Political Risk, Sustainability and Sovereign Credit: Pricing High-Frequency Political, Environmental, Social and Governance News","authors":"Anne Spencer Jamison, Lauren L. Ferry, Witold J. Henisz","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Environmental, social and governance (ESG) components are critical inputs of long-term growth and affect sovereigns' ability and willingness to repay their debts. In this paper, we argue that the media provides information on extra-financial factors and ESG-related news coverage allows investors to update their expectations about the likelihood of repayment. Drawing on a global corpus of more than four billion news articles to identify the frequency and tone with which ESG factors are discussed daily, we show that reporting on ESG factors affects creditors' assessment of sovereign creditworthiness, even after accounting for political and macroeconomic conditions. By revisiting previous work with a broader scope and fine-grained data, we advance our understanding of how and based on what information creditors form expectations of sovereign creditworthiness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1111-1122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy, Human Capital, and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From Developing Economies","authors":"Alex O. Acheampong, Eric Evans Osei Opoku","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the role of human capital in democracy and foreign direct investment (FDI) relationship in 129 developing countries from 1980 to 2022. Democracy is viewed as a multidimensional concept with five measures: electoral, liberal, egalitarian, participatory, and participation democracy. Employing the dynamic generalized method of moments, the findings demonstrate that democracy indices and human capital have direct, positive, and significant impact on FDI. Additionally, we observe that democracy indices increase FDI inflows when the human capital index is above a certain threshold, while democracy variables decrease FDI inflows below this threshold. The paper also reveals that democracy reduces FDI inflows to low-income economies, sub-Saharan Africa, and Middle East and North Africa countries. However, it increases FDI inflows to middle-income economies and other developing regions. These findings are robust to alternative econometric techniques and model specifications. The findings underscore the importance of enhancing democratization and human capital development to attract FDI to developing economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1123-1144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecpo.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labor Market Institutions, Political Regimes, and Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries","authors":"Zhiyuan Wang","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this study, I argue that rigid labor market institutions (RLMIs) increase the likelihood of adopting fixed exchange rate regimes (FERRs) and lead to higher exchange rates in developing countries. Across the developing world, RLMIs render it imperative to fix exchange rates and facilitate its acceptance and implementation. Meanwhile, RLMIs contribute to domestic price overgrowth and consequently raise exchange rate levels in these places as well. Furthermore, such effects are posited to be stronger in developing democracies due to worker's political empowerment and regime-induced substitution. Empirical tests lend strong and robust support to these hypothesized correlations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1096-1110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geography of Discontent in Türkiye: Populism, Autocracy, and Voting Behavior in General Elections of 2007–2023","authors":"Özge Kozal, Mehmet Karaçuka, Justus Haucap","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyzes voting behavior in Türkiye's parliamentary elections from 2007 to 2023 under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), focusing on regional disparities and rising political discontent. Using province-level data and feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimation with region-specific interactions, the analysis identifies substantial regional variation in the determinants of electoral support for both incumbent and opposition parties. While economic growth positively influenced AKP votes—particularly in provinces in central-west Türkiye—this effect was reversed in regions like the South-east, Marmara and Aegean-Mediterranean, where economic downturns and unemployment increased support for opposition parties. Socioeconomic variables, such as educational gender gaps, agricultural economic structure, and healthcare access, also shaped voting patterns. The study further highlights the significance of spatial cleavages and identity-based dynamics, including the persistent influence of Kurdish and Alevi demographics. The analysis of the AKP's vote swing between the June and November 2015 elections shows that economic and demographic variables alone are insufficient to explain the shift; instead, increased security concerns and nationalist rhetoric appear to have played a pivotal role. These findings underscore the need to account for spatial heterogeneity and political context when analyzing voting behavior in electoral authoritarian regimes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1076-1095"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecpo.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Transparency Improve Public Policy? Evidence From a Tax Incentive Transparency Initiative","authors":"Calvin Thrall, Nathan M. Jensen","doi":"10.1111/ecpo.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tax incentives for business investment, a common economic development policy tool, are often criticized as bad policy but good politics: they aren't cost-effect strategies to attract investment or create jobs, but offer electoral returns for politicians who give them out. Building on the literature on the “fiscal illusion,” we theorize that making the costs of incentives transparent will reduce policymakers' use of them. To test this theory, we leverage a unique policy change—GASB 77—that required local governments in the United States to begin reporting the costs of their tax incentives. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate that GASB 77 had no discernible effect on local governments' use of tax incentives. Why did transparency fail to improve governance? Results of multiple elite surveys, elite interviews, and heterogeneity analyses suggest that transparency is only effective in the presence of pressure groups that can use the disclosed information to hold elected officials accountable.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47220,"journal":{"name":"Economics & Politics","volume":"37 3","pages":"1058-1075"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}