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 …% of societies with finitely-repeated encounters. However, lobbying investments are not always profitable, and profit …

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

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 …

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 …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … studies and find that the macroeconomic effects of reform (when measured objectively) tend to be larger and more precisely …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large variation across California counties in the effect of this reform on county …