This paper argues that creditors reflect the financial-safety-net aspect of bank lobbying, plausibly considering the … connection between bank lobbying and government bailouts. Using a structural approach, I show that bank lobbying is negatively …

We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …

In this chapter, our goal is to discuss whether and how bank lobbying in the United States leads to regulatory capture …. First, we provide an overview of the importance of and motivations behind bank lobbying. Second, we examine the impact of … lobbying on banking regulation and supervision by reviewing recent empirical evidence. Third, we discuss the effect of the …

We study how bankers can elicit lower capital requirements via lobbying: Bankers pledge to politicians a lobbying rate …-monotonic relationship between the lobbying rate and the likelihood that a crisis occurs. We also predict that the lobbying rate increases … monotonically as political participation rises and/or government guarantees expand. Finally, we suggest that a lobbying tax or …

In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … interpreted as a call for an outright ban of lobbying, they point in the direction of a need for rethinking the framework …