This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential … game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying … coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S. cellular services industry, we find that lobbying expenditures, as measured by …

This paper empirically explores the relationship between firms’ market behavior and their lobbying activities in a … structurally estimate market interactions while taking the potential endogeneity of lobbying decisions into account. Our results … higher. Furthermore, we reject the hypothesis that lobbying activities can be regarded as exogenous in the study of market …

This paper examines the effect of inefficient redistribution in Myerson’s (1993) model of redistributive politics …

This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues … that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income … redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they favor redistribution as a means to insure against income shocks. The paper …

on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we extract … turn our attention to the supply side of government redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments’ reactions …

. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as …