Organized interests and self-regulation
Subtitle: an economic approach
By: edited by Bernardo Bortolotti and Gianluca Fiorentini.
Contributors: Bortolotti, Bernardo.; Fiorentini, Gianluca, 1962-; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
Series: FEEM studies in economics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New york
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Industries -- Self-regulation -- Congresses; Pressure groups -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This volume collects together selected contributions from a research project sponsored by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. The papers were presented at the conference Pressure groups, self-regulation and enforcement mechanisms, also organized by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei." - Preface.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: 1. Introduction / Bernardo Bortolotti and Gianluca Fiorentini; title: Pt. I. Organized interests produce legislation. 2. Political institutions as screening devices / Gianluigi Galeotti ; 3. Electoral rules and interest groups: the mix of direct and indirect taxation / Gianluca Fiorentini ; 4. Endogenous regionalism's free-trade bias: special interests in the EEC, 1968-1983 / Stephen P. Magee and Hak-Loh Lee; title: Pt. II. Organized interests enforce legislation. 5. Self-regulation of the medical and legal professions: remaining barriers to competition and EC law / Roger Van den Bergh ; 6. Barriers to entry and the self-regulating professions: evidence from the market for Italian accountants / Bernardo Bortolotti and Gianluca Fiorentini ; 7. Imperfect competition in certification markets / Luigi Alberto Franzoni; title: Pt. III. Private ordering and self-regulation. 8. Trust under endogenous transaction costs / Pier Luigi Sacco ; 9. Self-regulation of pollution: the role of market structure and consumer information / Devon Garvie ; 10. The theory of quality regulation and self-regulation: towards an application to financial markets / Carlo Scarpa; title: Index.