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.S. state-level lobbying expenditures, which reveals another puzzle regarding the constant relationship between aggregate …
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In a contest group-specific public goods we consider the effect that managing an interest group has on the rent dissipation and the total expected payoffs of the contest. While in the first group, there is a central planner determining its members' expenditure in the contest, in the second group...
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Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...
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groups. The first model analyzes the case in which individuals in each group ignore the effect of the lobbying effect on the … model examine the case wherein the individual in each group takes account of the effect of lobbying activities on the Big …-size" effect in lobbying; when the group number is big, the Big Pie effect is insignificant and therefore is dominated by the …
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models are developed to investigate the social welfare implication of the number and size of the lobbying interest groups …. The first addresses social rent dissipation of lobbying activities where individuals in each lobbying group ignore the … lobbying effect on the size of aggregate output of the economy. It is shown that social rent dissipation is lower the larger is …
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