Insuring Hedged Bets with Lobbying

Replication data for study of the relationship between hedge fund investments on lobbying spending. Time series data for the United States from 1998-2015. Variables include total money spent on lobbying (in billions), assets under management in hedge funds (in billions), U.S. gross domestic product (in trillions), and U.S. federal budget (in trillions). The data include both the levels of these variables, and their differenced values.