lobbying pressure are more likely than other firms to choose joint ventures as their corporate governance structure. …

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model …

antitrust agency and where transparency - while making lobbying less effective - also implies real resource costs. We examine … regulatory failures. We find that under a welfare standard, lobbying leads to the clearance of relatively inefficient mergers … relatively efficient mergers that would increase welfare (i.e. there is a type I error). Lobbying actually reduces the extent to …

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 …

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

governments, which are subject to lobbying by the firms (be they insiders or outsiders to the merger). We argue that political …