This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about … increase the effect of lobbying. If, however, the cost of running for office is sufficiently large, there is no effect of … lobbying on policy. The model thus demonstrates that uncertainty on the influence of special interests can lead to large …

Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … different institutional arrangements as to judicial independence. -- Illegal lobbying ; Endogenous policy making ; Judicial …

lobbying are not restricted to the lobby's host-country but spill over to other member countries and have ambiguous effects on …