lobbying activities can influence the periods of economic recession and expansion from business fluctuations. The role of … lobbying is to affect the decisions made by officials in the government or international corporations and agencies or … organizations. In this paper we describe the structure of lobbying practice in European Union, Canada and United States of America …

utilitarian social welfare function and an egalitarian social welfare function. By spending resources on lobbying, interest groups … less weight to the egalitarian part. We use a model of a two-player lobbying game and obtain the conditions for a pure …

lobbying environment. The opportunities include the possibility of higher levels of associational coöperation. The paper …

In this study we examine the consistency between lobbying choices and insider trading behaviour by managers before and … additional evidence that managers' lobbying choice can act as a surrogate for their beliefs as reflected in their insider trading …

find support for these hypotheses. The article has implications for the literatures on lobbying, Europeanization, and …

complete information setting we show the following results. While ex post a lower cap may lead to higher lobbying expenditures …, ex ante a lower cap always implies lower expected total lobbying expenditures.The incompletely informed government …