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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 …

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Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying : The Rise of Private Health Insurance In the United States

Alsan, Marcella; Neberai, Yousra; Ye, Xingyou - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study examines the rise of private health insurance in the United States in the post- World War II era. We investigate the role of the American Medical Association (AMA) which financed a campaign against National Health Insurance that was directed by the country's first political public...

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How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2007

review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for …

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Buy, Lobby or Sue : Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey

Spiller, Pablo T. - 2006

The participation of interest groups in public policy making is unavoidable. Its unavoidable nature is only matched by the universal suspicion with which it has been seen by both policy makers and the public. Recently, however, there has been a growing literature that examines the participation...

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Putting the Lid on Lobbying : Tariff Structure and Long-Term Growth when Protection is for Sale

Nunn, Nathan - 2006

It has long been recognized that a country's tariffs are the endogenous outcome of a rent-seeking game whose equilibrium reflects national institutions. Thus, the structure of tariffs across industries provides insights into how institutions, as reflected in tariff policies, affect long-term...

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Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

Gawande, Kishore - 2005

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 …

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Influencing Connected Legislators

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

This paper studies how interest groups allocate campaign contributions when congressmen are connected by social ties. We establish conditions for the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium in pure strategies for the contribution game and characterize the associated allocation of the interest...

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Trade Policy Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining

Celik, Levent - 2011

In democracies, trade policy is the result of interactions among many agents with different agendas. In accordance with this observation, we construct a dynamic model of legislative trade policy-making in the realm of distributive politics. An economy consists of different sectors, each of which...

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Competitive Capture of Public Opinion

Alonso, Ricardo; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose a general equilibrium model where two special interest groups (SIGs) compete to influence public opinion. Citizens with heterogeneous priors over a binary state of the world receive reports drawn from a continuous message space by a variety of sources. The two opposite SIGs attempt to...

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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress

Bombardini, Matilde - 2007

This paper investigates the relationship between the size of interest groups in terms of voter representation and the interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share of an interest group and its contributions to a...

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