Watchdogs of the Invisible Hand: NGO monitoring and industry equilibrium

Gani Aldashev, Michela Limardi () and Thierry Verdier
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Michela Limardi: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Globalization has been accompanied by rising pressure from advocacy non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on multinational firms to act in socially-responsible manner. We analyze how NGO pressure interacts with industry structure, using a simple model of NGO-firm interaction embedded in an industry environment with endogenous markups and entry. We explain three key empirical patterns in developing-country industries under activist pressure: the degree of exit under more intense activist pressure, the differential response of industries to NGO activism, and the general rise of NGO activism following globalization.

Keywords: NGOs; Globalization; Private regulation; Monopolistic competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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Published in Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, pp.28-42. ⟨10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.03.006⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.03.006

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