. By endogeneizing the wage rate and incorporating resource-using lobbying, we show that more DFI results in higher … lobbying efforts and lower imports under fairly general conditions, i.e. a reversal of quid pro quo DFI. We also conduct … comparative statics analysis on wages and lobbying efforts. …

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 …

-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. …

This note amends the model of informational lobbying presented in Potters and van Winden (Public Choice 74 … equilibria exist when the cost of lobbying is intermediate and the policymaker’s prior favors the interest group’s preferred … policy. However, we prove that a semi-separating equilibrium also exists under these conditions. Implications for lobbying …