Corporate Political Strategies Against Regulatory Capacity: Evidence from U.S. State Environmental Agencies

• In Event: Administrative Federalism and Subnational Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

We examine when and how firms shift their political strategies in response to changes in regulatory capacity by exploiting a drastic decrease in state environmental agencies' workforce size in the United States during 2000-2019.

Authors

• Kyuwon Lee, Princeton University

• Dahyun Choi, Princeton University