of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not the candidates are willing to respond and able to collude on lowtax … policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …% of societies with finitelyrepeated encounters. However, lobbying investments are not always profitable, and profitsharing …

lobbying Nash equilibrium. We show how the resultant subsidy depends on the political influence of all three lobbying groups … given, we seek to explain the subsidy as the outcome of a trilateral tug of war between the "green" energy industry, the …. -- green preferences ; fossil fuel ; green energy ; green energy subsidy ;cap-and-trade ; overlapping regulation ; competitive …

We challenge the prevailing view that pure informational lobbying (in the absence of political contributions and … evidence distortion or withholding) leads to better informed policymaking. In the absence of lobbying, the policymaker may … channels through which informational lobbying is detrimental, in the sense of leading to worse policy and possibly less …

This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …