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Lobbying Contests With Endogenous Policy Proposals

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Lobbyists choose what to lobby for. If they can precommit to certain policy proposals, their choice will have an influence on the behavior of opposing lobbyists. Hence lobbyists have an incentive to moderate their policy proposals in order to reduce the intensity of the lobbying contest. This logic has been explored in a number of recent papers. I reconsider the topic with a perfectly discriminating contest. With endogenous policy proposals, there is a subgame‐perfect equilibrium where the proposals of the lobbyists coincide and maximize joint welfare; moreover, this equilibrium is the only one that survives repeated elimination of dominated strategies. Hence there is no rent dissipation at all. A politician trying to maximize lobbying expenditures would prefer an imperfectly discriminating contest.

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  • Johannes Münster, 2006. "Lobbying Contests With Endogenous Policy Proposals," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 18(3), pages 389-397, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:18:y:2006:i:3:p:389-397
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2006.00175.x
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    1. Jia, Hao & Skaperdas, Stergios & Vaidya, Samarth, 2013. "Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 211-222.

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