There is a growing literature on the causes and consequences of corruption. A common and often unsubstantiated … corruption. In this paper we examine the effects of corruption on environmental policy under varying degrees of political … competition. An important feature of the model, which has been neglected in the existing literature, is that corruption may occur …

regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. …

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare levels are always higher with multinationals than with national …

subsidy will turn to a positive tariff rate with the increasing lobbying inducement from domestic firms. Secondly, zero tariff …

professional lobbying. …

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …