event window around the passage of the anti-corruption law. We find that the negative association between lobbying and firm …Does corporate lobbying simply add value by allowing firms to communicate expert information to policy makers, or does … in exchange for favorable policy decisions? Using the corruption scandal involving the top Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack …

Using an event study, we examine whether the stock market considers corporate lobbying to be a value-enhancing activity …, we show that a firm that spends $100,000 more cumulatively on lobbying in the three years prior to 2006, experiences a … lobbying may arise from potentially unethical practices …

This paper deals with the relationship between regulatory compliance, bureaucratic corruption, lobbying and the … industrial structure of a country. We show that lobbying and bureaucratic corruption can coexist at the macro level when we allow … industrial structures: we show the implications this has for the level of compliance, corruption and lobbying in that country …

Most campaign finance reforms target the alleged corruption attending money in the political and legislative process …. Elizabeth Drew supports such measures in her book The Corruption of American Politics. In this review, I argue that Drew …

This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …