sectors. We explain this with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, policy is influenced by … pressure groups that incur lobbying expenses to create rents. In expanding industries, entry tends to erode such rents, but in …

This paper studies the impact of the competition between lobbies and voters on policy outcomes under alternative …

Washington's 'revolving door' - the movement from government service into the lobbying industry - is regarded as a …

interpreted as the reduced form of various political economy models of voting and lobbying. We consider three special cases: a …

stems from more intensive competition, manifested through external economies of scale and longer production runs. We finish …

This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … improved) for patients living in more competitive markets after the introduction of hospital competition in January 2006. Our …

integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the …

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees … fierce market competition and no lock-in the allocation of ownership does not play a role (as one might expect), provided …