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 …

role of market structure and consumer information / Devon Garvie ; 10. The theory of quality regulation and self …

extreme preferences are available, lobbying has no in fluence on equilibrium policy. I show that this result does not hold in … a model with ideological parties instead of citizen candidates. Even if forward-looking voters are aware that lobbying … of voters is better off with lobbying. …