, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and dynamic …

licensing, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and …

institutional trap. Moreover, the intensity of rent-seeking behavior increases both with progressive redistribution of wealth and …

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

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 …

become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … remain clueless about the merits of reform, even when acquiring expertise or better information is costless. Such a strategy … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …