We study lobbying behavior by firms in a two-region economy, with either centralized or decentralized provision of … profit-enhancing local public goods. Firms compete either in the market, lobbying for public good provision once entered in a … market, or for the market, lobbying to gain ccess to it. When firms compete in the market, we show that lobbying is …

We study lobbying behavior by firms in a two-region economy, with either centralized or decentralized provision of … profit-enhancing local public goods. Firms compete either in the market, lobbying for public good provision once entered in a … market, or for the market, lobbying to gain access to it. When firms compete in the market, we show that lobbying is …

-dependent firms and weaken or undermine the lobbying strategies upon which business associations have long relied. Because some of …

size and find a large negative council size effect. This pattern provides indirect evidence for the occurrence of lobbying …. The direction of the effect could be explained by free-riding incentives in individual lobbying effort contribution caused …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … different institutional arrangements as to judicial independence. -- Illegal lobbying ; Endogenous policy making ; Judicial …

This paper compares centralized and decentralized policymaking in a game theoretic model of informational lobbying and … preferred policy and then engages in monetary lobbying. The analysis highlights a new channel through which centralized …

central to local governments are the result of lobbying by local governments. We predict the farther away a jurisdiction is … from the capital, the fewer transfers it should receive, other things equal. Our contention is that lobbying costs rise …