2017
DOI: 10.1257/mic.20150253
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Centralized Decision Making and Informed Lobbying

Abstract: International audienceWe address the trade-off between centralized and decentralized decision making subject to influence from privately informed lobbies. We focus on informative equilibria with separating differentiable contribution schedules and identify an information transmission effect under centralized structures. Such effect decreases capture and increases welfare when lobbies have "aligned preferences." The opposite effect holds for "polarized preferences." We present two examples of this framework: lo… Show more

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“…Hiriart, Martimort, and Pouyet (2010) show, with another application in mind, that separating ex-ante monitors of risk from ex-post monitors is a pow-erful tool against regulatory capture. Costa Lima, Moreira, and Verdier (2012) show on the contrary some benefits of centralization. See Boyer and Ponce (2012) for an application to bank supervision and a review of the relevant literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Hiriart, Martimort, and Pouyet (2010) show, with another application in mind, that separating ex-ante monitors of risk from ex-post monitors is a pow-erful tool against regulatory capture. Costa Lima, Moreira, and Verdier (2012) show on the contrary some benefits of centralization. See Boyer and Ponce (2012) for an application to bank supervision and a review of the relevant literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Hiriart, Martimort, and Pouyet (2010) erful tool against regulatory capture. Costa Lima, Moreira, and Verdier (2012) show on the contrary some benefits of centralization. See Boyer and Ponce (2012) for an application to bank supervision and a review of the relevant literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…The lobbying group anticipates the does not consider interjurisdictional spillovers. Bordignon, Colombo and Galmarini (2008) and Lima, Moreira and Verdier (2017) consider monetary lobbying when comparing centralized and decentralized decision-making, but they do not consider information production by interest groups.…”
Section: Application: Interjurisdictional Spilloversmentioning
confidence: 99%