The authors note that on page 11517, right column, fourth full paragraph, lines 4-5, "k min = k 0 and k max = k 0 exp(−βd 0 )" should instead appear as "k max = k 0 and k min = k 0 exp(−βd 0 )." Also, on page 11518, left column, fourth full paragraph, line 8, "e 2 = k 2a /k 2c " should instead appear as "e 2 = k 2c /k 2a ."Figs. 4, 5, and 6 and the legend for Figure 5 appeared incorrectly. The corrected figures and their legends appear below.
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 to protect the environment. I offer an explanation for this phenomenon, suggesting firms behave as they do in order to steal market share from their rivals. I develop a simple model in which a polluting firm makes a clean technology investment and then lobbies successfully for strong environmental protection, since this will shift market share away from its rival who has not made the clean investment. The key result is that there are situations where it is only because of firms' lobbying that environmental protection is achieved, and this raises welfare. Cambridge Working Paper Economics Faculty of Economics www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk
Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? To address that question, we leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative government had reached with the European Union. The bill was defeated decisively three times following a major revolt amongst Conservative backbench Members of Parliament (MPs). We find that three factors influenced their rebellion calculus: the MP's own ideological views, constituency preferences and career concerns. Somewhat paradoxically, the rebellion within the Conservative Party came from MPs who had supported Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum and from MPs elected in Leave-leaning constituencies.
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