We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems … policies generated are not intermediate between policies that would result from pure lobbying or from pure legislative … contributions are very small, despite the fact that lobbying has a marked effect on policies …

scale nor technological costs can explain the decline in the Q- elasticity of entry, but lobbying and regulations can. We … relative to large ones, particularly in industries with high lobbying expenditures. We conclude that lobbying and regulations …

popular view that choices on secondary policy instruments are largely determined by lobbying, we find strong effects of …

sectors. We explain this with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, policy is influenced by … pressure groups that incur lobbying expenses to create rents. In expanding industry, entry tends to erode such rents, but in …

This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over … the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available … evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation …