politicians in Finland and exploit exogenous variation generated by close electoral races that shift the quality composition of … local councils to show that (i) electing more high-income, incumbent, and competent politicians (defined as those who have a … differentially associated with economic ideology, and these correlations tally with the policy effects …

relevant information, we also assume that lobbies engage in non-negligible informational lobbying. We focus on a single … political decision to be taken and offer a simple model in which the optimal influence strategy is a mixture of both lobbying … lobbying so that less policy relevant information is available and as a result political decisions become less efficient …

This paper examines the effects of lobbying activities across international borders, on determining each country s … foreign lobbying groups with the same weight, Pareto-efficient tariffs are attained at which world welfare is maximized. …

This paper examines the effects of lobbying activities across international borders, on determining each country … foreign lobbying groups with the same weight, Pareto-efficient tariffs are attained at which world welfare is maximized …