How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the
question: lobbying by firms. Estimating a binary choice model of firm behavior, we find …

We study the impact of carbon pricing on CO2emissions across five sectors for a panel of 39
countries over 1990-2016. Using newly constructed sector-level carbon price data, we …

We study the characteristics and behavior of small campaign donors and compare them to
large donors by building a dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms,
voting and contributing resources to campaigns, in a context in which the negligible impact …

In more than half of the democratic countries in the world, candidates face legal constraints
on how much money they can spend on their electoral campaigns, yet we know little about …

Popular and academic discussions have mostly concentrated on large donors, even though
small donors are a major source of financing for political campaigns. We propose a theory of …

We study France's 1995 ban on firm donations to politicians. We use a difference-in-
differences approach and a novel dataset combining the campaign manifestos issued by …

We analyze a hand-collected sample of bribery cases from around the world to describe
how the payment of bribes affects shareholder value. The net present value of a bribe …

The paper offers a comprehensive and integrative review of the current literature on
corporate political strategies sharing common boundaries with finance, accounting and …

To learn about the effects of corporate campaign contributions, we study the potential
influence of the insurance industry in US state politics. The insurance industry is one of the …