given their internal resources (lobbying staff, budget, group type) and external political environment they face. Interest … interest groups to take advantage of the political climate? This study utilizes lobbying disclosure report datasets from 1999 …-2009 that have been made available as a result of the 1995 Lobbying Disclosure Act and subsequent updates made by Congress in …

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …