This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data … show that sectors characterized by a higher degree of competition (more substitutable products and a lower concentration of …

investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper …

This paper examines the attitude of Jewish law to competition in light of the economist's understanding of the benefits … of competition and of the beneficiaries from intervention in the competitive process. The punchline of this paper is … simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of restrictions on competition and has had its share of legislation to promote …

get inside the black box of the lobbying process and inform our understanding of the relative importance of these two … views of lobbying. We exploit multiple sources of data covering the period 1999 to 2008, including: federal lobbying … lobbying does not fit the data well. Instead, maintaining connections to politicians appears central to what lobbyists do. In …

Has lobbying by financial institutions contributed to the financial crisis? This paper uses detailed information on … financial institutions' lobbying and mortgage lending activities to answer this question. We find that lobbying was associated … with more risk-taking during 2000-07 and with worse outcomes in 2008. In particular, lenders lobbying more intensively on …

We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data … exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii …) lobbying status is highly persistent over time. Estimating a model of a firm's decision to engage in lobbying, we find …