In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … interpreted as a call for an outright ban of lobbying, they point in the direction of a need for rethinking the framework …

Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed … decisions. If going far beyond this, in particular if successfully influencing policy makers to unnecessarily tighten regulation …