lobbying activities. …

We develop a model of lobbying in which a time and resource constrained policymaker first chooses which policy …

Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and … diminishes discouragement in weaker contestants. The impact on revenue is more intricate. In contrast to theory, a strict bid …-cap does not increase revenue, but a mild bid-cap can increase revenue even when not predicted by theory. Our data also show …

This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …