of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on low …-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful … when the lobbyist and candidates interact just once. By contrast, it yields substantially lower redistribution in about 40 …

We study the interaction between competitive markets and income redistribution that reallocates unequal pre-tax market … (DA) with exogenous zero or full redistribution. In another setup, after trading, they vote on redistributive tax policies … in a majoritarian election with two competing candidates. This results in virtually full redistribution, even when …