). We show that standard theory in the economics of regulation must be reconsidered in a world with MNEs and novel results …

The compromise enhancing effect of lobbying on public policy has been established in two typical settings. In the first … demonstrate that in the latter setting, the compromising effect of lobbying need not exist. Our reduced-form, two-stage public …) desires to suckle thereby threatening the public well being more than the lobbying interest groups. The main result specifies …

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. …

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 …

-identical producers within the same industry, lobbying for tighter environmental rules turns out to be an important strategy of raising …-industrial competition engage in counter-lobbying and when they remain silent. …

multidimensional policy-space and (2) wealth taxation affects well-organized and homogenous interest groups so that lobbying affects … policy outcomes. In this paper the interaction of factor price bargaining and delegated tax-lobbying is studied. Two agents … engage in lobbying: managers of large firms and trade union leaders. Low wealth taxation is the natural consequence of income …

-off between spending resources on lobbying for subsidies and costly restructuring such that both restructuring and subsidisation …