scale nor technological costs can explain the decline in the Q- elasticity of entry, but lobbying and regulations can. We … relative to large ones, particularly in industries with high lobbying expenditures. We conclude that lobbying and regulations …

for the costs of political bargaining and lobbying that arise from implementing and administering government regulation …. Regulation, tax, and Coasean exchange, such as through cap-and-trade regimes, are presented as substitutes, based on the relative …

Extremely narrow election outcomes--such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots--are likely to … College system. Starting from probabilistic simulations of likely presidential election outcomes that are similar to the … output from election forecasting models, we calculate the likelihood of disputable, narrow outcomes under the Electoral …

's jurisdiction increases significantly pre-election, spiking 23%, with zero equivalent move for equivalently global (but domestic …

implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter …