(CAR), franchise value and lobbying, affect various measures of risk in the US banking industry before, during and after … during the crisis. The authors further find evidence suggesting that lobbying decreases bank risk in non-crisis years and … lobbying activities by bank holding companies on bank risk before, during and after the financial crisis.  …

Purpose – This paper aims to prepare executives to pilot a US lobbying effort within the bounds of the US Federal law …. Lobbying law may be thought of as the “regulation of regulation”, as it defines the ground rules for those wishing to have a … direct impact upon all other regulatory systems. The article outlines what the US lobbying law requires, what it forbids and …

We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …

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 …

studies how lobbying by both groups shapes the government’s policy. We find that downtown retailers typically have steeper … lobbying contribution schedules than superstores, which induces the government to underprice central roads and parking spaces …, extending the model to allow for lobbying by residents within the downtown retail district we find that residents may lobby for …