This paper examines the effect of firms’ lobbying activities on penalties received from public competition authorities …. We show that lobbying expenditures are negatively associated with the amount of the cartel sanction, within cartel. Our … estimates also report that cartel sanctions are more responsive to lobbying expenditures when (1) the head of the antitrust …

This paper examines the effect of firms' lobbying activities on penalties received from public competition authorities …. For an average sanctioned firm, our model indicates that one additional dollar in lobbying yields to a decrease in cartel … sanction of 3.12 dollars. We also observe that cartel sanctions are more responsive to lobbying expenditures when (1) the head …

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 are not restricted to the lobby's host-country but spill over to other member countries and have ambiguous effects on …

relevant information, we also assume that lobbies engage in non-negligible informational lobbying. We focus on a single … political decision to be taken and offer a simple model in which the optimal influence strategy is a mixture of both lobbying … lobbying so that less policy relevant information is available and as a result political decisions become less efficient …