Caps on Political Lobbying: Comment
通过比较政治与体育领域的支出上限案例，用数学模型证明支出上限可能因增加罚款风险而提高总支出，对研究政策效果的经济学者有参考价值。
The article focuses on spending caps, and compares those used in politics with many examples in sports economics. In 1999, the party of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was fined $3.2 million for exceeding Israel's campaign finance caps. Financing caps by the National Collegiate Athletics Association did not prevent The University of Oregon from spending $3 million on their football locker room. Mathematical models are provided in order to prove that spending caps will not necessarily have their intended effect, as they increase the total expended amount by increasing the risk of being fined.