We model how lobbying by interest groups affects the level of investor protection. In our model, insiders in existing … under which this lobbying game has an inefficiently low equilibrium level of investor protection. Factors that operate to …

litigate administrative rulemaking in the courts affects the lobbying strategies of competing interest groups at the rulemaking … cannot be observed by examining each one in isolation. We demonstrate that lobbying effort responds to the ideology of the … quo, interest group lobbying investments become smaller, and may be eliminated all together, 2) as interest groups become …

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 …

This is the first paper to statistically examine the timing of interest group lobbying. It introduces a theoretical … intensity and timing of interest group activity. Using a new database of all lobbying expenditures in the U.S. states ranging up … to 25 years, the paper shows interest group lobbying increases substantially during one of these structural windows in …