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DESCRIPTION:Trade Development and Political Economy Present: Is it Whom You
  Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process by
  Matilde BombardiniTDPE Workshop (Joint with Applied Microeconomics Worksh
 op)Speaker: Matilde Bombardini (University of British Columbia)Authors: Ma
 rianne Bertrand\, Matilde Bombardini and Francesco TrebbiAbstract: Do lobb
 yists provide issue-specific information to congressmen? Or do they provid
 e special interests access to politicians? The authors present evidence to
  assess the role of issue expertise versus connections in the lobbying pro
 cess and illustrate how both are at work. In support of the connections vi
 ew\, they show that lobbyists follow politicians they were initially conne
 cted to\, when those politicians switch to new committee assignments. In s
 upport of the expertise view\, the authors show that there is a group of s
 pecialists that even politicians of opposite political affiliation listen 
 to. However\, they find a more consistent monetary premium for connections
  than expertise.
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SUMMARY:Trade Development and Political Economy present: Matilde Bombardini
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Trade Development and Political Economy Presen
 t: Is it Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lo
 bbying Process by Matilde Bombardini<br><br>TDPE Workshop (Joint with Appl
 ied Microeconomics Workshop)<br><br>Speaker: Matilde Bombardini (Universit
 y of British Columbia)<br>Authors: Marianne Bertrand\, Matilde Bombardini 
 and Francesco Trebbi<br><br>Abstract: Do lobbyists provide issue-specific 
 information to congressmen? Or do they provide special interests access to
  politicians? The authors present evidence to assess the role of issue exp
 ertise versus connections in the lobbying process and illustrate how both 
 are at work. In support of the connections view\, they show that lobbyists
  follow politicians they were initially connected to\, when those politici
 ans switch to new committee assignments. In support of the expertise view\
 , the authors show that there is a group of specialists that even politici
 ans of opposite political affiliation listen to. However\, they find a mor
 e consistent monetary premium for connections than expertise.
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