) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent … the other. Areas ripe for more exploration include informational lobbying, the role of the media, firm-level analysis of … lobbying and more realistic approaches to labor markets. …

This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about … increase the effect of lobbying. If, however, the cost of running for office is sufficiently large, there is no effect of … lobbying on policy. The model thus demonstrates that uncertainty on the influence of special interests can lead to large …

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 …

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

and Growth Pact. -- deficits ; fiscal adjustment ; partisan theory ; veto players ; time-series cross-secton models …