' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution - even when transfers to …

of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on lowtax … 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 …

redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …

, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and dynamic …

licensing, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and …