The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) was established in 1971 as a research-oriented university by the government South Korea. KAIST currently leads R&D innovative technologies with its 646 faculty members 10,793 students, majority whom are graduate students. five colleges at equipped state-of-the-art facilities, enabling KAIST-affiliated research groups to conduct cutt...

Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution the literature on vote-buying is legislative-lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose and Snyder (1996), which predicts that lobbies will optimally form supermajorities many cases. Providing first empirical assessment of this prominent model, we test its central predictions laboratory. While...