benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …

We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the …

countries in the referendum and initiative use. We apply a number of estimation techniques. We find that per capita income …

private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

In this paper we model the commercial lobbying industry (such as the so-called K-Street lobbyists of Washington, D ….C.). In contrast to classical special interest groups commercial lobbying firms are not directly motivated by policy outcomes … level of commercial lobbying services is typically socially inefficient, and characterize the nature of the distortions …

democracy where citizens can lobby an elected policy-maker. We find that lobbying always matters. That is, lobbying always …