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  • Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi, "Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process," NBER Working Paper 16765 (2011), https://doi.org/10.3386/w16765.

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Is It Whom You Know Or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process” (joint with Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi), American Economic Review , Vol. 104, No. 12, December 2014 , (pp. 3885–3920) citation courtesy of

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