This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data …

agents tend to face. The weakness of lobby contributions in predicting protectionism across industries may be due to the …

This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data …

endogenous determination of trade protection through lobbying - where the government is also concerned about income … foreign capital enters the export or import-competing sectors).There will either be increased counter-lobbying for protection … by the export sector or reduced lobbying for protection in the import-competing sector, because of the scale effect …