size and find a large negative council size effect. This pattern provides indirect evidence for the occurrence of lobbying …. The direction of the effect could be explained by free-riding incentives in individual lobbying effort contribution caused …

regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. …

We analyze the determinants of environmental policy when two firms engage in two types of lobbying against a … restriction on allowed pollution: General lobbying increases the total amount of allowed pollution, which is beneficial for both … firms. Private lobbying increases the individual pollution standard of the lobbying firm, but has a negative or zero effect …

This paper investigates if multinationals in.uence the political process through lobbying more effectively than … national firms. First, I introduce a model which contrasts a multinational's incentives for lobbying with those of a national … firm. Then the effect of lobbying on the political decision is analyzed. I conclude that multinationals have smaller …

This paper surveys recent approaches towards lobbying if interest groups influence the decision of an incumbent … transmission of information through lobbying. Recent extensions to the two basic lobbying models are discussed in great detail … into a general lobbying model. The survey concludes with a summary of the main insights and indicates promising directions …

capital. I find no robust evidence to corroborate the theoretically predicted benefits of decentralization. …

school resources differently as decentralization took place. Using municipal data the paper studies how per pupil spending … decentralization. As nothing much has happened with per pupil spending, the teacher-pupil ratio has become more evenly distributed …

elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of …