base years, the more successful a pension reform the country achieved (after controlling for other factors, such as … demography). Our analysis shows that the reform effort varies widely across countries and over time. Indeed, only three countries … paper, we analyze factors that may facilitate or hamper pension reform quality of fiscal institutions, public debt, trade …

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

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …