For the years 2009-2018, we find that fossil fuel firms are more likely to lobby and that lobbying expenditures are …

We find a robust positive association between firm-level climate change exposure and corporate lobbying on climate …

interests, the answer to this question is important for explaining policy. However, evidence on the strategic lobbying behavior … of individual companies remains scarce. We use data from lobbying disclosure reports on all major climate bills … introduced during the 111th Congress (2009-2010). We then link the lobbying disclosure reports to detailed data on the fuel …

being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power holders is tested. The resulting interesting finding is … that, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying increase the probability of state fragility by mitigating the …

We study lobbying behavior by firms in a two-region economy, with either centralized or decentralized provision of … profit-enhancing local public goods. Firms compete either in the market, lobbying for public good provision once entered in a … market, or for the market, lobbying to gain ccess to it. When firms compete in the market, we show that lobbying is …