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The political economy of bank lending : evidence from an emerging market

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Lobbying for capital tax benefits and misallocation of resources during a credit crunch

Zaourak, Gabriel - 2018

lobbying. For the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09, this paper shows that lobbying activity intensified, driven by large firms … endogenous lobbying, the paper studies the aggregate consequences of this rise in lobbying activity. When calibrated to U ….S. micro data, the model generates an increase in lobbying that matches the magnitude and the cross-sector and within …

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