We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data … exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii …) lobbying status is highly persistent over time. Estimating a model of a firm's decision to engage in lobbying, we find …

political connections. We do not find any significant crowding-out effects of independent political expenditures on lobbying …

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 …

Corporate lobbying is an important and growing component of firms' corporate political activity. According to recent … lobbying (e.g., Alexander et al. 2009), little is known about how lobbying is actually performed. The purpose of this study is … to describe the lobbying processes that occur at the legislative and administrative branches of the federal government …