Search Results - subject:"Contribution limits"

Do ‘catch-up limits’ raise retirement saving? : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Lavecchia, Adam - 2017

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Campaign Contributions and Political Polarization

Tarhan, Simge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Political candidates raise campaign funds from a variety of sources. Whether contributions from certain sources should be restricted has been the subject of debate in the U.S. since the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. I contribute to this debate by showing that the source of contributions...

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Pay-to-Play Politics: Informational lobbying and campaign finance reform when contributions buy access

Cotton, Christopher - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2010

the claim that the rich are better off because they have more access to politicians, and that contribution limits reduce … contribution limits: they can encourage lobby formation, which results in more evidence disclosure and better policy. … are also the targets of politician rent seeking. Relatively poor groups tend to be better off in equilibrium. Contribution …

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Access Fees in Politics

Cotton, Christopher - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2008

This paper develops a game-theoretic model of lobbying in which a politician sells access to interest groups. The politician sets an access fee, or the minimum contribution necessary to secure access, and an interest group that pays this fee can share verifiable evidence in favor of its...

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Informational Lobbying and Competition for Access

Cotton, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

of all interest groups, even when he grants access to only some of the groups. Contribution limits reduce the signaling …

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