Corporate lobbying, political connections, and the bailout of banks

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Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying (2014, background): “…to engage in revenue hiding and avoid fraud detection, and to garner excess returns in the marketplace through a variety of mechanisms (Mian & Trebbi 2011; Blau et al. 2013; Hochberg et al. 2009; Igan et al. 2012; Yu & Yu 2011; Gelbach 2006; Richter 2011; Hill et al. 2011; Adelino and Dinc 2013).”
Does Political Corruption Impede Firm Innovation? Evidence from the United States (2019, background): “Many studies examine the value impact of so-called “legal corruption,” including corporate lobbying (Yu and Yu (2011), Blau, Brough, and Thomas (2013), Borisov et al. (2015), and Kang (2016)) and campaign contributions (Cooper, Gulen, and Ovtchinnikov (2010), Akey (2015)).”
Is the SEC captured? Evidence from comment-letter reviews (2017, methodology): “Following prior literature (Correia 2014; Blau et al. 2013; Yu and Yu 2011) and guidance from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP 2013), we use two primary measures to identify PC firms: contemporaneous lobbying expenditures by the firm and contemporaneous PAC 13 donations.6 We obtain data on…”