This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data … show that sectors characterized by a higher degree of competition (more substitutable products and a lower concentration of …

investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper …

This paper examines the attitude of Jewish law to competition in light of the economist's understanding of the benefits … of competition and of the beneficiaries from intervention in the competitive process. The punchline of this paper is … simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of restrictions on competition and has had its share of legislation to promote …

lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and … limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of … over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in early 1998. We find that the …

political mechanisms: we study legislative bargaining, lobbying, and electoral competition, as well as the possible interactions …

competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The … effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the … technological frontier. We discuss theoretical mechanisms driving lobbying of firms away from the technological frontier: not only …