This paper provides a step towards a more complete theory of lobbying, extending the menu-auction model of Grossman and … contribute to industry lobbying. Moreover, more polluting industries also have a greater incentive to form and contribute to a …

This paper investigates the effects of lobbying by corporations when investments are irreversible and government cannot … generally more successful in obtaining tax breaks. Thus lobbying can mitigate the capital levy problem. Nevertheless, these … restrictions on corporate lobbying. When the deadweight costs of lobbying fall, taxes on sunk capital tend to fall, but political …

. -- tax rates ; vote-buying ; lobbying ; government corruption …

This paper investigates the effects of lobbying by corporations when investments are irreversible and government cannot … generally more successful in obtaining tax breaks. Thus lobbying can mitigate the capital levy problem. Nevertheless, these … restrictions on corporate lobbying. When the deadweight costs of lobbying fall, taxes on sunk capital tend to fall, but political …

This paper introduces an alternative to the lobbying literature's standard assumption that "money buys policies". Our …. Second, its much stronger lobbying incentives weaken the free-rider problem and raise incentives for lobby formation. Third …, the model yields testable hypotheses on: the determinants of lobbying incentives; the number of lobbying firms in an …

This paper develops a lobbying-by-firms model that draws on a more realistic characterization of the lobbying process …, modeling approach furnishes theoretical support for why one encounters different numbers of lobbying firms of varying sizes in …) casting out the role of money from the lobbying process. Theoretical legs are also furnished for the empirical finding of a …