combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find …

In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … interpreted as a call for an outright ban of lobbying, they point in the direction of a need for rethinking the framework …

this event, firms with little or no prior exposure to the federal accounts that experienced cuts reduced their lobbying … spending. In contrast, firms with a high degree of exposure to the cuts maintained and even increased their lobbying spending … likely intensified their lobbying efforts to distinguish themselves from the others and improve their chances of procuring a …

We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We … higher costs in such auctions, amounting to 16.4 percent of the total resolution losses. We also find that lobbying winners … have worse operating and stock market performance than their non-lobbying counterparts, suggesting that lobbying results in …

, and (2) lobbying high-level government politicians to resist legal reforms designed to improve judicial efficiency and …

. Political uncertainty has a positive effect on environmental policy as it reduces lobbying efforts. Applying our model to a …

the value of protection, via costless messages (cheap-talk) and costly messages (lobbying). We estimate our model using … firm-level data on tariff suspension bills and lobbying expenditures from 1999-2006, and find that indeed verbal opposition … by import-competing firms, with no lobbying, significantly reduces the probability of a suspension being granted. In …

Using detailed information on lobbying and mortgage lending activities, we find that lenders lobbying more on issues … negative abnormal stock returns during key crisis events. The findings are robust to (i) falsification tests using lobbying on …) instrumental variables strategies. These results show that lobbying lenders engage in riskier lending …