policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that …

special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest … turn stimulates more intense lobbying which increases the scope of corrupt behavior. It is shown that electoral competition …

on the nexus between pre-election interest group lobbying and electoral competition. …

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 …

This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …

We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …

between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field … pure anticipation of future rewards from a lobbying party suffices to bias a decision-maker in favor of this party, even …