Prevailing accounts of the efficiency of subsidies for the nonprofit sector presume that the only alternative source of public goods is a single sovereign, controlled by a single median voter. Tiebout sorting, however, also provides citizens with alternative bundles of public goods. When these...

We investigate whether politicians award intergovernmental grants to core supporters. Our new dataset contains information on discretionary project grants from a German state government to municipalities over the period 2008-2011. The results show that discretionary grants were awarded to...

This paper examines the effect of firms' lobbying activities on US federal grants. For an average firm in terms of grant amount and lobbying expenditures, my model indicates that one additional dollar in lobbying to the granting agency yields to a minimum increase in the federal grant of 3.54...