firms are more likely to be influential and to benefit from subsidies and low tax constraints. However, large firms are also …

lobbying Nash equilibrium. We show how the resultant subsidy depends on the political influence of all three lobbying groups … lobbying, …

. The panel data analysis shows that lobbying by the agricultural industry negatively affect RE deployment, whereas standard …

subsidies.1 When taxes are distortionary, political pressures by domestic interest groups representing the import competing … sector induce the government to set inefficiently high tariffs and subsidies. If the government commits the tariff to a lower … equilibrium obtain) a larger production subsidy. This political substitutability between tariffs and subsidies is shown to reduce …

when receiving subsidies and lobbying is costly. Due to firm heterogeneity, a within-industry conflict between receiving …Recent empirical evidence shows that the few firms that receive subsidies are large, and that large firms take a … prominent role in shaping public policy by lobbying. In this paper, I present a theoretical framework that accounts for these …