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This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …
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An organization must decide which proposals to fund. In evaluating the proposals, the organization may rely on those applying for funding to produce evidence about the merits of their own proposals. We consider the role of a capacity constraint preventing the organization from funding all...
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We develop a model of lobbying in which a time and resource constrained policymaker first chooses which policy …
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Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …
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I study how political competition affects the feasibility of free trade agreements (FTAs). I show that the possibility …
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