increase anti-environmental lobbying expenditures. We show that firms with a dirtier product portfolio tend to lobby more … also imply more anti-environmental lobbying, thereby complicating environmental policymaking. …

across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change … and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than 150 years of data on parliamentary petitions in USA and Britain, we … measure historical lobbying and document several stylized facts. First, lobbying over industrial policies follows a hump …