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dc.contributor.authorOak, Mandar-
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-01T06:14:28Z-
dc.date.available2016-01-01T06:14:28Z-
dc.date.copyright2015-12-21-
dc.date.issued2015-12-21-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/17158-
dc.descriptionThe R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on December 21, 2015 by Prof. Mandar Oak, University of Adelaide, Australia on "Access, Agenda Constraint and Informational Lobbying".en_US
dc.description.abstractWe develop a model of informational lobbying in which a policymaker must decide which issues to implement reforms on. On each issue there is an informed interest group that always favour the adoption of reform, and which can lobby the policymaker by offering to provide truthful information about the state of the world. A key feature of our model is that the the policymaker faces resource constraints which inhibit his ability to grant access to lobbying interest groups and may also restrict his ability to implement reform on all issues. We show that while the act of lobbying can signal pro-reform information, it may not do so perfectly. In particular, an interest group may want to lobby the policymaker even when it does not possess pro-reform information in the hope that the policymaker is unable to audit the information provided but still takes the act of lobbying as a signal that the state is favourable to reform. We then show that a restriction on the number of issues on which reforms can be implemented can improve the quality of information transmission by making the disciplining role of access more credible. Indeed, in some cases imposition of such a restriction leads to a Pareto improvement.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIndian Institute of Management, Ahmedabaden_US
dc.subjectInformational Lobbyingen_US
dc.subjectpolicymakeren_US
dc.titleAccess, Agenda Constraint and Informational Lobbyingen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US
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