This survey covers recent literature on lobbying, with particular focus on corporate lobbying. Three main research … aspects of lobbying arepresented in the context of a single unified model that encompasses both strategic communication and … monetary contributions. Next, thereview investigates into three particular issues in the lobbying literature: (i) Incentive to …

the policy, their early involvement may lead them to oppose the reform more than if they had been excluded from the …

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to … remain clueless about the merits of reform, even when acquiring expertise or better information is costless. Such a strategy … leads to intense lobbying competition and larger political contributions. We identify a novel benefit of campaign finance …

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

create doubt about scientific information, we use a signaling model of interest-group lobbying in which the policymaker has … persuasion to imply that the NGO may be a radical extremist whose lobbying is not credible. The second involves the creation of a …