This paper examines lobbying and corruption as alternative ways of dealing with regulatory obstacles. I propose a model … that firms who join lobby groups do not stop paying bribes to bureaucrats, and firms more impacted by corruption are no … of a firm bribing legislators and other rule makers, suggesting that lobbying introduces the possibility of state capture …

corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …

lobbying. In a non-cooperative equilibrium, each country chooses the level of R&D subsidy independently and fails to … internalizes technology spillover but is vulnerable to lobbying by politicians from each country, who attempt to free-ride on the …. Furthermore, this threshold is an increasing function in the effectiveness of lobbying. This paper also considers the possibility …

agricultural protection in the US: (i) legislator preferences, (ii) electoral incentives, or (iii) lobbying. Using data on the roll … agricultural protection, but that legislator preferences and lobbying play a role, too. Moreover, legislator preferences and …

being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power holders is tested. The resulting interesting finding is … that, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying increase the probability of state fragility by mitigating the …

The paper is an attempt to observe the effects of the development of rent-seeking or lobbying groups on the growth pace … policies implemented both at micro and macro level after the 1980s revealed the importance of lobbying effect on policies … examples of the literature on lobbying and its effects on growth. Taking from Mancur Olson’s inspiring book, The Rise and …