private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

An extensive literature has studied lobbying by special interest groups. We analyze a novel lobbying channel: lobbying … politically motivated spenders of similar magnitude, stressing the economic importance of this lobbying channel. These findings …

lobby the government to change the rules in more developed ones? Should we expect an evolution from bribing to lobbying, or … can countries get trapped in a bribing equilibrium forever? Corruption and lobbying are to some extent substitutes. By …) they switch to lobbying if the level of development is sufficiently high. Combined, the economy might evolve from a bribing …

popular view that choices on secondary policy instruments are largely determined by lobbying, we find strong effects of …

Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and … theoretical framework that focus on the relationship between lobbying and corruption (that is, it investigates under what … conditions they are complements or substitutes). The paper also offers novel econometric evidence on lobbying, corruption and …

maker does not react unless all of them are actively lobbying. In a ‘mutual discipline’ or high-trust equilibrium, by …