. The model reconciles informational theories of lobbying with empirical evidence suggesting that interest groups … group influence: from an ex ante perspective, informational lobbying negatively effects the welfare of legislators. The …

We present a citizen-candidate model on a multidimensional policy space with lobbying, where citizens regard some … offset the effect of lobbying on the implemented policy. This result is in sharp contrast with previous work on … unidimensional citizen-candidate models that predict the irrelevance of lobbying on the implemented policy. In an extension of the …

so by focusing on the use of lobbying for protection by import competing firms as a means to postpone costly product …, it will be optimal to adjust quality and to decrease the lobbying effort at some time, leading to liberalization and … technological catch-up. But then the equilibrium tariff will again be small and "cheap", and it will pay to start lobbying anew …

This paper attempts to add greater insight into the study of political influence. It analyzes contracts for lobbying by … transmission mechanism. The main contributions include a more realistic three party lobbying model, new constraints for lobbying …

In this paper, we present a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with endogenous lobbying. We find that … lobbying induces policy compromise and always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. In particular, even though the policy … preferences of lobbies are relatively extreme, lobbying biases the outcome of the political process toward the center of the …

1970s, the period of the most rapid rate of growth in the population. We show that most advocacy at this time focused on …

How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms … persistence in lobbying. The existence of these costs is further confirmed in studying how firms responded to a particular policy …