"There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context … of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …

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 …