of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on low …-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful … when the lobbyist and candidates interact just once. By contrast, it yields substantially lower redistribution in about 40 …

’ policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …

citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …