partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external …

introduce a common-agency lobbying game, where agents attempt to influence the location and provision decisions by the … lobbying game can replicate the optimal solution. Second, under-provision and over-provision of the public good may be obtained … an agglomeration effect. Third, some non-lobbying neighborhoods may be better off than in the case where all …

just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …

allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …

a recession: (i) the lobbying of domestic, non-exporting firms, and (ii) the relationship between vulnerability, the …

of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both … social planner. However, if lobbying is costly, only one sector finds it profitable to offer monetary contribution and direct … resources towards the type of education required by its production. Which sector will engage in lobbying depends on relative …

In this paper we model the commercial lobbying industry (such as the so-called K-Street lobbyists of Washington, D ….C.). In contrast to classical special interest groups commercial lobbying firms are not directly motivated by policy outcomes … level of commercial lobbying services is typically socially inefficient, and characterize the nature of the distortions …

dynamic model of commercial lobbying in which citizens may hire lobbyists to present policy proposals on their behalf to …

create doubt about scientific information, we use a signaling model of interest-group lobbying in which the policymaker has … persuasion to imply that the NGO may be a radical extremist whose lobbying is not credible. The second involves the creation of a …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …