decision-maker and to exert political pressure on her. We show that both lobbying instruments are interdependent. In our view … constraints governing informational lobbying determine a specific lottery available. The circumstances under which political … risk. The combination of lotteries available and induced risk preference determines the optimal lobbying behavior. Our …

. -- all-pay auctions ; reserve price ; economic theory of lobbying … assuming a fully-informed seller in the literature on the application of all-pay auction to lobbying games, while they appear …

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. -- bicameralism ; corruption ; lobbying …

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 …

In this paper we investigate the role of judicial control of lobbying activities in an endogenous policy framework …, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying … different institutional arrangements as to judicial independence. -- Illegal lobbying ; Endogenous policy making ; Judicial …

We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with … Groseclose and Snyder (1996)-type lobbying models with exogenous policy proposals can turn into a second-mover disadvantage when …

political uncertainty. -- lobbying ; climate policy …

small spending by special interests. -- lobbying ; voting ; special interests ; credibility …