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Exhibit 682

Corporate Lobbying and Firm Performance

Exhibit 682 ยท Journal article

Corporate Lobbying and Firm Performance

We find that, on average, lobbying is positively related to accounting and market measures of financial performance.

Uses Lobbying Disclosure Act data; portfolios with the highest lobbying intensity outperform benchmarks in the three following years.

Source
Chen, Parsley and Yang, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 42(3-4):444-481
Date
2015
Quoted from
Abstract
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12109
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Peer-reviewed Peer-reviewed studies of other samples find positive associations between lobbying and outcomes: lower effective tax rates (Richter et al.), more earmarks for universities with an appropriations committee member (de Figueiredo and Silverman), and better financial performance (Chen et al.).