This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms' lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential … game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying … coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S. cellular services industry, we find that lobbying expenditures, as measured by …

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 …

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 …

We use a mechanism design approach to study the organization of interest groups in an informational model of lobbying … optimal organization of lobbying favors competition between groups only when their preferences are not too congruent with …