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Corporations, Rights, and Lobbying

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2015
While there may be several practical concerns regarding the practice of corporate lobbying of government officials, there is the more basic question of a corporation’s moral right to do so. I argue that group agents such as corporations have no moral rights, and thereby cannot have the right to lobby.
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Strategic Corporate Tax Lobbying

The Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2015
ABSTRACT We investigate the motivation for and outcome of corporate participation in shaping tax policy via lobbying. We posit that generally tax-sophisticated firms lobby on tax issues and that their motives for doing so are either to obtain a tax benefit or to avoid losing one.
Janet A. Meade, Shihong Li
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Determinants and Effects of Corporate Lobbying

Financial Management, 2011
We examine the determinants and value effects of corporate lobbying, controlling for corporate political action committee (PAC) campaign contributions. We find evidence that firms with greater potential payoffs from favorable policy and regulations lobby most actively, and that managers often utilize both lobbying and campaign contribution channels to ...
Hill, Matthew D., Kelly, G. Wayne, Lockhart, G. Brandon, Van Ness, Robert A.   +3 more
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Corporate Lobbying and CEO Pay

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This study examines the agency costs of corporate lobbying by exploring the relation between lobbying and excess CEO compensation. We show that CEOs of firms engaged in lobbying earn significantly greater compensation levels compared to CEOs in non-lobbying firms, after controlling for standard economic determinants of pay.
Hollis Ashbaugh Skaife, David Veenman, Timothy Werner   +2 more
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Corporate lobbying and public scrutiny

Journal of Applied Accounting Research
Purpose The paper investigates the interaction between firms’ lobbying activities and public scrutiny and its impact on the firms’ fraud risk. Design/methodology/approach Prior studies on regulatory capture assume that lobbying firms ...
Daeun Lee, Ying Liang
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The Corporate Value of (Corrupt) Lobbying

Review of Financial Studies, 2014
We examine whether the stock market considers corporate lobbying to be value enhancing, using an event that potentially limited the ability of firms to lobby but was exogenous to their characteristics and prior lobbying decisions. The results show that this exogenous shock negatively affects the value of firms that lobby.
Alexander Borisov, Eitan Goldman, Nandini Gupta   +2 more
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Corporate Lobbying in Foreign Policy

2017
More Americans than ever before believe that money in politics weakens our democracy. Public opinion polls show that the number of people who believe that the country is run by a few big interests looking after themselves rose to nearly 80% over the past 20 years.
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Corporate lobbying in the European Union: the logic of access

Journal of European Public Policy, 2002
The complexity and diversity of European interest politics is exem- plie ed by the multitude of channels and targets that private actors use to lobby in the EU multi-level system. The aim of this article is to investigate the logic behind the apparent ad hoc lobbying behaviour of private interests.
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Giving too much and paying too little? The effect of corporate social responsibility on corporate lobbying efficacy: Evidence of tax aggressiveness

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2021
Lin Woon Leong
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Ethics and Corporate Lobbying

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Anqi Jiao, Shawn Mobbs, Sandra Mortal
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