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The Returns from Rent-Seeking : Campaign Contributions, Firm Subsidies and the Byrd Amendment

Reynolds, Kara M.; Liebman, Benjamin H. - 2004

This is the first empirical study to examine Congressional support of an antidumping law that directs the U.S. Customs Service to distribute collected duties to protected firms. The law produces a highly transparent measure of how much each firm is rewarded for its rent-seeking efforts to secure...

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Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial Services Legislation

Stratmann, Thomas - 2009

The challenge in the campaign contribution literature has been to overcome the simultaneous equation bias that is inherent in the vote-contribution relationship. This paper proposes a new method to overcome this bias. It examines behavior at different points of time and relates it to...

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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC

Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - 2022

The perceived increase in corporate political influence has raised concerns that corporations advance policies that benefit capital and harm labor. We examine whether money in politics harms labor using the surprise Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. FEC (2010), which rendered bans on...

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Campaign connections

Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023

This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...

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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC

Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...

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Should We Tax or Cap Contributions? : A Lobbying Model with Policy Favors and Access

Cotton, Christopher - 2013

This paper develops a model of political contributions in which a politician can either sell policy favors, or sell access. Access allows interest groups to share hard information with the politician in support of their preferred policy. Here selling access maximizes policy utility, while...

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Statistical Bias in Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance

Ansolabehere, Stephen; Snowberg, Erik C.; Snyder, James M. - 2003

This paper examines evidence of statistical bias in newspaper reporting on campaign finance. We compile data on all dollar amounts for campaign expenditures, contributions, and receipts reported in the five largest circulation newspapers in the United States from 1996 to 2000. We then compare...

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010

regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. -- Multinational enterprises ; regulation ; policy formation … ; lobbying ; interest groups ; foreign direct investment …

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It takes two to Tango : lobbies and the political business cycle

Horgos, Daniel; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009

With interest groups significantly affecting economic performance (according to Mancur Olson) and a vital interest of governments in economic growth and low unemployment in order to win elections, there should be a link between political business cycles and the evolution of lobbies over time...

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On the size of the winning set in the presence of interest groups

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore interest...

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