全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w9064
来源ID	Working Paper 9064
	Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying
	John M. de Figueiredo; Brian S. Silverman
发表日期	2002-07-18
出版年	2002
语种	英语
摘要	Despite a large literature on lobbying and information transmission by interest groups, no prior study has measured returns to lobbying. In this paper, we statistically estimate the returns to lobbying by universities for educational earmarks (which now represent 10 percent of federal funding of university research). The returns to lobbying approximate zero for universities not represented by a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) or House Appropriations Committee (HAC). However, the average lobbying university with representation on the SAC receives an average return to one dollar of lobbying of $11-$17; lobbying universities with representation on the HAC obtain $20-$36 for each dollar spent. Moreover, we cannot reject the hypothesis that lobbying universities with SAC or HAC representation set the marginal benefit of lobbying equal to its marginal cost, although the large majority of universities with representation on the HAC and SAC do not lobby, and thus do not take advantage of their representation in Congress. On average, 45 percent of universities are predicted to choose the optimal level of lobbying. In addition to addressing questions about the federal funding of university research, we also discuss the impact of our results for the structure of government.
主题	Other ; Law and Economics ; Public Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w9064
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566673
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	John M. de Figueiredo,Brian S. Silverman. Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying. 2002.

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