power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …

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 …

create doubt about scientific information, we use a signaling model of interest-group lobbying in which the policymaker has … persuasion to imply that the NGO may be a radical extremist whose lobbying is not credible. The second involves the creation of a …