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Matching and Economic Design, Australian Economic Review (2012)

This article presents a brief survey of two-sided matching. We introduce the reader to the...

 

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Strategic Appointments (with Anthony Bertelli), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2007)

This article develops an institutional spatial theory of presidential appointments to administrative agencies that falls...

 

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Lobbying Bureaucrats (with Morten Bennedsen), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2006)

We study how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it...

 

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Informational Lobbying and Political Contributions (with Morten Bennedsen), Journal of Public Economics (2006)

Interest groups can potentially influence political decision-makers by offering contributions and by providing relevant information...

 

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Structural Reform Litigation: Remedial Bargaining And Bureaucratic Drift (with Anthony M. Bertelli), Journal of Theoretical Politics (2006)

Initiated by interest groups representing the interest of a class of agency clients, structural reform...

 

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Lobbying Legislatures (with Morten Bennedsen), Journal of Political Economy (2002)

We analyze informational lobbying in the context of a multimember legislature that decides on the...

 

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Lobbying and Legislative Organization: The Effect of the Vote of Confidence Procedure (with Morten Bennedsen), Business and Politics (2001)

This paper analyzes how the structure of the legislature affects interest groups' incentives to lobby....

 

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Strong Firms Lobby, Weak Firms Bribe: A Survey-Based Analysis of the Demand for Influence and Corruption, SSRN (2009)

We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political...