second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …

small to medium size coverage bias against MPs from the center-left parties in Germany and in France. A plausible …

understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …

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 …

on the influence of lobbying by both national firms and foreign multinationals on trade policies and the gains from …

We study lobbying behavior by firms in a two-region economy, with either centralized or decentralized provision of … profit-enhancing local public goods. Firms compete either in the market, lobbying for public good provision once entered in a … market, or for the market, lobbying to gain ccess to it. When firms compete in the market, we show that lobbying is …

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