concern. Additionally, while recent US lobbying data details the issues of concern for an interest group, it does not detail … PACs engaging in lobbying and campaign contributions account for the majority of such political money despite representing …-specific contributions across issues as well as issue-specific lobbying expenditures across representatives. This decomposition can …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …

concern. Additionally, while recent US lobbying data details the issues of concern for an interest group, it does not detail … PACs engaging in lobbying and campaign contributions account for the majority of such political money despite representing …-specific contributions across issues as well as issue-specific lobbying expenditures across representatives. This decomposition can …

Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …

We examine how Big N auditors' changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first … thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic … auditor lobbying is driven by prevailing standards of litigation and regulatory scrutiny and by support for fair …

median sample firm that an increase of $1 million in lobbying spending is associated with about $32.35 million in taxes saved …