Rent-seeking
Education, Rent seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources
... Another crucial element in the determination of multiple equilibria is the cost of political participation. When there is no cost involved in rent seeking i.e. z = 0, then R = 0, and the high-growth ...
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Education, Rent Seeking and Growth
... As our paper analyzes rent seeking behavior, it also relates to a large literature showing that property rights protection positively affects growth. 4 In recent years the empirical literature has used ...
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
... • Indicators of the regional share of households adopting precaution mea- sures to protect their homes against theft and vandalism (Istat, 2004). These measures include the habit of leaving the light on when away from ...
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State fragility, rent seeking and lobbying: evidence from African data
... 5 links and clientelism. With the administration confiscated and personalized, it is not surprising to notice that, everybody wants to become a politician. This is essentially because, these so-called politicians believe ...
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Rent Seeking, Tax Policy, and Economic Growth
... Wide-spread expectations prevailed at the beginning of the transition processes in Russia and other East European countries that market institutions would arise spontaneously just after elimination of the centralized ...
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State capacity; drivers of corruption and anti corruption interventions: conceptualising corruption in Indian context a rational choice approach
... Evidently, there are differences in the level of incidence of corruption across jurisdictions. Studies show negative correlation between incidence of corruption and economic development. Developed countries show low ...
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Rent seeking, Government Size and Economic Growth
... Since rent-seeking is illegal and rent-seekers run the risk of getting caught, another element that a¤ects individual incentives to invest in these two di¤erent forms of capital is the quality of ...
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Endogenous Timing in General Rent Seeking and Conflict Models
... An example of a rent-seeking model with an endogenous prize is Baye et al. (2005), who use an all-pay auction framework in order to compare different litigation sys- tems. Here, different legal systems are ...
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Government transparency and expenditure in the rent seeking industry: the case of Japan for 1998 2004
... that rent-seeking activity decreases economic efficiency (Tullock, 1967; Krueger, ...2011). Rent-seeking activities taken by special interest groups lead bureaucrats and politicians to ...
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Rent focused behavior and rent seeking in the context of rent relations theory development
... elite rent-seeking behavior in Nauru and in United Arab ...resource rent has been used to improve living standards in the medium term (it directed at expanding the intertemporal budget constraint of ...
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Overbidding and overspreading in rent seeking experiments: Cost structure and prize allocation rules
... We study experimentally the effects of cost structure and prize allocation rules on the performance of rent-seeking contests. Most previous studies use a lottery prize rule and linear cost, and find both ...
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Rent seeking measurement in coal mining by means of labour unrest: an application of the distance function
... cases, rent seeking on the part of the protectionist lobby can be interpreted as a form of negotiating the productive adjustment, and will generate welfare costs which must be compared with “normal” ...
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Natural Resource Curse; what is the relationship to Economic Development, Income Inequality and Poverty? Do institutions and Good Governance matter?
... negatively correlated with all the indicators of good governance and quality institutions. FDI on the other hand is positively associated with these indicators. The positive coefficient we get for our interaction ...
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Trends of Rent seeking Theory
... of rent-seeking suggests that as a result of the economic agents rent-seeking society incurs losses of two types: losses due to inefficient administration of property rights and the production ...
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Rent Seeking and Reform: Relationship Revisited
... contain rent-seeking ...between rent-seeking and reform by construction of a theoretical model with one foreign firm and one domestic firm both trying to influence the choice of ...
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The Rent Seeking Behavior of the Fair Value under the New Accounting Standards— Based on the Theory of Accounting for Rent Seeking
... Accounting seeking is rent-seeking reflected in the accounting ...“accounting rent-seeking”; the domestic scholars began to combine the theory of rent- seeking with ...
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Behavior in Contests
... of rent-seeking is very simple and it is used to describe socially inefficient but personally profitable ...as rent seeking. The two most commonly used models to describe ...
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Dynamic Game Research on Multiple Subjects in the Real Estate Market of China
... The result of the tri-game shows that central government tends to release the supervision as their profits will be affected along with the improvement of regu- latory costs, meanwhile, the local governments and property ...
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Rent Seeking Behavior and Optimal Taxation of Pollution in Shallow Lakes
... We now apply the Tullock model of rent-seeking (Tullock, 1980) to obtain the probability of each group’s lobbying efforts being successful at having their desired policy applied. The simplest, linear, form ...
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Crowding out in productive and redistributive rent seeking
... An important stream of the literature seeks a solution to Tullock’s paradox by allowing for randomization of e¤orts. Baye, Kovenock and de Vries (1994) introduced a mixed-strategy solution, allowing players to randomize ...
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