accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France’s regions over 1985-92 suggest that electoral …This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France’s regions over 1985-92 suggest that electoral …This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-92 suggest that electoral …This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-91 suggest that influence …This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent … the other. Areas ripe for more exploration include informational lobbying, the role of the media, firm-level analysis of … lobbying and more realistic approaches to labor markets. …

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 …