across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we … measure historical lobbying and document several stylized facts. First, lobbying over industrial policies follows a hump …

across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we … measure historical lobbying and document several stylized facts. First, lobbying over industrial policies follows a hump …

across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we … measure historical lobbying and document several stylized facts. First, lobbying over industrial policies follows a hump …

politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …

This paper aims at analyzing the e ects of lobbying over economic growth and primarily welfare. We model explicitly the … equilibrium, despite stimulating growth, lobbying restricts the market structure and reduces welfare when compared to the free …-entry outcome. However, once general equilibrium considerations are taken into account, we find that lobbying may improve welfare …

, economic freedom that emerges as a result of costly lobbying efforts may be less fruitful. In an extreme case, costly lobbying … efforts may even negate the growth-enhancing effect of economic freedom. To the extent that lobbying efforts constitute an … of lobbying is greater the more efficient is the institutional environment. Panel data analysis reveals the expected …