How does the lobbying industry work? And how does it influence trade and other types of economic policy? Matilde Bombardini (University of California Berkeley) explores the US lobbying industry, whether lobbyists convey useful information from companies to policymakers, how different industries organize politically, and how all of that ends up influencing US policy (33:02).

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• Bombardini, Matilde and Francesco Trebbi. 2020. Empirical Models of Lobbying. Annual Review of Economics 12: 391-413.
• Bertrand, Marianne, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi. 2014. Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process. American Economic Review 104, no. 12: 3885-3920.
• Bombardini, Matilde and Francesco Trebbi. 2012. Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy? Journal of International Economics 87, no. 1: 18-26.