Agca, Senay; Igan, Deniz; Li, Fuhong; Mishra, Prachi - 2019
reduced the availability of government funds disbursed through procurement contracts to shed light on this question. Following … this event, firms with little or no prior exposure to the federal accounts that experienced cuts reduced their lobbying … spending. In contrast, firms with a high degree of exposure to the cuts maintained and even increased their lobbying spending …