When Do Firms Hire Lobbyists? The Organization of Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission

This paper examines the explanatory power of transaction cost economics to explain vertical integration decisions for lobbying by firms. We examine 150 lobbying contacts at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the issue of payphone compensation for dia...

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Main Authors: de Figueiredo, John, Kim, James
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7403