outcomes and in politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, and voter mobilization, this work adds a new perspective on …

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 …

This paper empirically explores the relationship between firms' market behavior and their lobbying activities in a … structurally estimate market interactions while taking the potential endogeneity of lobbying decisions into account. Our results … higher. Furthermore, we reject the hypothesis that lobbying activities can be regarded as exogenous in the study of market …

In this paper, I examine the role of firm lobbying in shaping the structure of US production networks, and its … to more regulations, and distant buyer-supplier connections. Further examination suggests that lobbying reduces … model of spatial production networks indicates that lobbying reduces misallocation by 22%, and explains 3.2% of the gain of …