This paper explores and explains Member State (MS) lobbying on European Union (EU) policy energy efficiency, with particular focus legislation individual metering billing of heating, cooling domestic hot water (IMB) in multi-apartment buildings. has been heavily debated was amended 2018 following successful by the opponents IMB. The strategy Sweden, a small MS EU, its allies coalition opposing ...

This work completes a series of articles by the author on evolution lobbying in Russia. Previous have analyzed main stages development institution Russia, from 19th century to present day. article discusses one most complex and controversial issues related Russia – is it possible Russian conditions regulate relations interest groups with state how? The concludes that there are sufficient number...

An extensive literature has studied lobbying by special interest groups. We analyze a novel lobbying channel: lobbying businessmen-politicians through business proxies. When a politician controls a business, firms attempting to curry favors shift their spending towards the politician's business. The politician benefits from increased revenues, and the firms hope for favorable regulation in retu...

We investigate issues related to two hard problems related to voting, the optimal weighted lobbying problem and the winner problem for Dodgson elections. Regarding the former, Christian et al. [CFRS06] showed that optimal lobbying is intractable in the sense of parameterized complexity. We provide an efficient greedy algorithm that achieves a logarithmic approximation ratio for this problem and...

In a spatial common agency model, two asymmetric interest groups (principals) in‡uence a unique decision-maker (agent). The decision-maker chooses a onedimensional policy on behalf of those principals and has private information about his ideology after contracting with principals. The policy is always e¢ cient and re‡ects a weighted average between the principals’ and the agent’s ideal points....