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 …

lobbying Nash equilibrium. We show how the resultant subsidy depends on the political influence of all three lobbying groups … lobbying, …

I show that lobbying generates negative externalities, which affect non-lobbying companies. When a piece of new … legislation passes in Congress, non-lobbying companies in aggregate lose $1.9bn in market value. I obtain this result using a … novel dataset combining comprehensive information on corporate lobbying activity with congressional activity on bills. To …

This paper proposes a model of voting competitions (political campaigns and strategic lobbying) where voters are … of campaign contributions. -- Network games ; strategic spending ; Colonel Blotto games ; counteractive lobbying …