and the interests of society as a whole in their decisions. However, the estimated weight of lobbying contributions in … supports restrictive agricultural trade policies will be difficult to dislodge in the absence of mobilizing strong counter-lobbying …

(CAR), franchise value and lobbying, affect various measures of risk in the US banking industry before, during and after … during the crisis. The authors further find evidence suggesting that lobbying decreases bank risk in non-crisis years and … lobbying activities by bank holding companies on bank risk before, during and after the financial crisis.  …

Purpose – This paper aims to prepare executives to pilot a US lobbying effort within the bounds of the US Federal law …. Lobbying law may be thought of as the “regulation of regulation”, as it defines the ground rules for those wishing to have a … direct impact upon all other regulatory systems. The article outlines what the US lobbying law requires, what it forbids and …

building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power … holders is tested. Findings The resulting interesting finding is that political interference, rent seeking and lobbying … are two main policy implications. First, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying are likely to increase the …

We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …