Brian Kelleher Richter

Assistant Professor of Business, Government, and Society

Dr. Suess on the political economy of taxation...

Research

I am interested in understanding how economic actors respond the institutional environment in which they operate.  My interdisciplinary research interests span political economy, non-market strategy, business and politics, corporate social responsibility, law and economics, corporate finance, international economics, and applied microeconomics.  I have several projects in progress and others in the pipeline: most are related in some way to corporate political influence.  

My publication(s) and a partial list of working papers and work in progress follows.  Please contact me if you would like more information on any of it.  

Publication(s)

Working Papers

Work in Progress (Development Stages)

  • Reconciling Informational and Rent-Seeking Models of Lobbying
    (with Sebastian Köhler)
  • Personal Campaign Contributions of Executives vis-a-vis Corporate Political Strategy
    (with Adam Fremeth and Brandon Schaufele)
  • Lobbying and Procurement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
    (with Jeffrey F. Timmons)
  • Organizing Firms’ Lobbying Activities
    (with Krislert Samphantharak)
  • Lobbyists as Middlemen
    (with Krislert Samphantharak and Jeffrey F. Timmons)
  • The Varieties of Corporate Political Influence
  • Which Firms Lobby: Theory and Evidence
    (with Krislert Samphantharak and Jeffrey Timmons)