procedures laid down in the Administrative Procedures Act, with rigorous lobbying before decisions, later subject to litigation …

with the lobbying of perators. The issues are economically and technologically complex, with inquiries having to cut … through terminology, economics, lobbying and threats of litigation. The European Parliament scrutinises and adopts framework …

potential reform of the economies concerned. Moreover, the estimation using the fixed-effect Poisson model and marginal effect … the determinants of reforms, is original in the sense that for questions of reform, the democracy factor had not yet been …

Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed …

equilibrium setting, capital requirements and lobbying contributions are determined as the outcome of bargaining between banks and … politicians. We show that bankers and politicians agree on lobbying contributions and capital regulation that renders banks … capital regulation standards from international agreements eliminate lobbying incentives, yielding an efficient and fair …

This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential … game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying … coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S. cellular services industry, we find that lobbying expenditures, as measured by …

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 … intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare levels are always higher with multinationals than with national …