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 … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …

Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …

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 …

This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential … game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying … coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S. cellular services industry, we find that lobbying expenditures, as measured by …