The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

Although the majority of research on revolving-door lobbyists centers on the influence they
exercise during their postgovernment careers, relatively little attention is given to whether …

We study the effects of property rights over the use of data on market outcomes. To do so, we
consider a model in which a monopolistic firm offers a service to a set of heterogeneous …

We analyze the strategic considerations inherent in legislative subsidies and develop an
informational lobbying model with costly policy reforms. In contrast to other models of …

An organization must decide which of two proposals to fund. In evaluating the proposals, the
organization relies on the agents applying for funding to produce evidence about the merits …

Lobbyists are omnipresent in the policy-making process, but the value that they bring to both
clients and politicians remains poorly understood. We develop a model in which a lobbyist's …

In their efforts to affect regulations, firms have developed specific strategies to exploit
scientific uncertainty. They have manufactured doubt by hiring and funding dissenting …

Whom should an interest group lobby in a legislature? I develop a model of informational
lobbying, in which a legislature must decide on the allocation of district-specific goods and …

We develop a model of lobbying in which a time and resource constrained policymaker first
chooses which policy proposals to learn about, before choosing which to implement. The …

We develop a model of policymaking in which a politician decides how much expertise to
acquire or how informed to become about issues before interest groups (IGs) engage in …