my 2010 article, Privatization, Free Riding, and Industry-Expanding Lobbying, in the International Review of Law and …

To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so … margins of gas stations. We find that the MTU fostered a more intense competition, with a reduction in price margins of 1 …

This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …

Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …

We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany's electricity retail. We … inverted U-shape effect of competition on price dispersion, consistent with theoretical findings by Janssen and Moraga …