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Tax-Exempt Lobbying : Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
annual PAC contributions and about 40 percent of total federal lobbying expenditures. Given the lack of formal electoral or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453263
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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480980
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The Political Economy of the Subprime Mortgage Credit Expansion
Mian, Atif - 2010
We examine how special interests, measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry, and constituent interests, measured by the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional district, may have influenced U.S. government policy toward the housing sector during the subprime mortgage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462549
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Competition and Political Organization : Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?
Bombardini, Matilde - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463876
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The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
Mian, Atif - 2008
We examine the determinants of congressional voting behavior on two of the most significant pieces of federal legislation in U.S. economic history: the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. We find evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464179
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Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process
Bertrand, Marianne - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461892
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Lobbying Behind the Frontier
Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The … effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the … technological frontier. We discuss theoretical mechanisms driving lobbying of firms away from the technological frontier: not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616568
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Endogenous Network Formation in Congress
Canen, Nathan - 2016
This paper presents and structurally estimates a model of endogenous network formation and legislative activity of career-motivated politicians. Employing data on socialization and legislative effort of members of the 105th-110th U.S. Congresses, our model reconciles a set of empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455924
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Authoritarian Elites
Newson, Adlai - 2018
We explore the role of ruling elites in autocratic regimes and provide an assessment of tools useful to clarify the structure of opaque political environments. We first showcase the importance of analyzing autocratic regimes as non-unitary actors by discussing extant work on nondemocracies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480619