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 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 …

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 …

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data …