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Choosing lobbying sides: the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union

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  • Atikcan, Ece Özlem
  • Chalmers, Adam William

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Despite the impressive amount of empirical research on lobbying, a fundamental question remains overlooked. How do interest groups choose to lobby different sides of an issue? We argue that how groups choose sides is a function of firm-level economic activity. By studying a highly salient regulatory issue, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and using a novel data set of lobbying activities, we reveal that a group’s main economic sector matters most. Firms operating in finance and retail face unique costs and are incentivised to lobby against the GDPR. However, these groups are outgunned by a large, heterogeneous group of firms with superior lobbying firepower on the other side of the issue.

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  • Atikcan, Ece Özlem & Chalmers, Adam William, 2019. "Choosing lobbying sides: the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 39(4), pages 543-564, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:39:y:2019:i:4:p:543-564_1
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    1. Alessandro Acquisti, 2023. "The Economics of Privacy at a Crossroads," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Privacy, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Nihit Goyal & Michael Howlett & Araz Taeihagh, 2021. "Why and how does the regulation of emerging technologies occur? Explaining the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation using the multiple streams framework," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(4), pages 1020-1034, October.

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