This paper examines the effects of lobbying activities across international borders, on determining each country … foreign lobbying groups with the same weight, Pareto-efficient tariffs are attained at which world welfare is maximized …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome …

relevant information, we also assume that lobbies engage in non-negligible informational lobbying. We focus on a single … political decision to be taken and offer a simple model in which the optimal influence strategy is a mixture of both lobbying … lobbying so that less policy relevant information is available and as a result political decisions become less efficient …