“informational lobbying market” and can be easily incentivized by policymakers to truthfully reveal private information. We also show …

We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying … reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs …) support their ratification. Moreover, relative to non-lobbying firms, lobbying firms are larger, and more likely to be engaged …

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first … demonstrate that in the latter setting, the compromising effect of lobbying need not exist. Our reduced-form, two-stage public …) desires to suckle thereby threatening the public well being more than the lobbying interest groups. The main result specifies …

This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in …

allocating state lottery revenues to Israeli municipalities from discretion-based allocation to rules-based allocation. We find …

The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra …-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two million observations on daily lottery revenues that cover more than 2,500 lottery … outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation …