Rent Seeking
Rent Seeking
... into rent seeking through ...agent seeking to obtain a loan to finance the entrance fee into rent seeking would need to have substantial capital to meet the collateral ...the ...
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Rent-Seeking Behaviour in Local Government Budget in Indonesia
... when seeking to maintain their ...of rent-seeking have also been attempted by ...investigate rent-seeking behaviour using expenditure ...measure rent-seeking using two ...
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Markets in political influence: rent seeking, networks and groups
... in rent-seeking activities up to a cost represented by a portion of the whole rectangle between the MP and C lines, or Tullock’s ...on rent-seeking ...
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Endogenous Timing in General Rent Seeking and Conflict Models
... Before introducing our model, it should certainly be emphasized that we are not the first to undertake the program of generalizing the findings of Baik and Shogren (1992) and Leininger (1993). However, almost all papers ...
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Rent-Seeking as Social Policy: A UK Case Study
... of rent-seeking, because it is clear that not only are the interests of residents being over-ridden, they are actually paying for the ...the rent-seeking becomes ...
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Monopoly Exploitation and Rent-Seeking as an Inevitability of Capital Concentration
... as rent- seeking, is assumed by the authors to be conditioned by the genesis of companies, and therefore, describes the nature of their activities and survival in the ...
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Crowding out in productive and redistributive rent seeking
... productive rent-seeking situations, instead, lack of participation would create a social cost (the ”lost treasure”), since valuable rents would be left ...-player rent-seeking contests the ...
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Rent Seeking, Trade Policy and Economic Welfare
... when rent-seeking is present. In addition, since rent-seek- ing has been increasing in relation to the number of firms, the economy might be in a worse situation than that in which there are only ...
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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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Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay
... of rent-seeking and its impact on economic development, using a unique database of nearly 50,000 public procurement operations in Paraguay, covering the period 2004 to ...
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Corporate Rent-Seeking and the managerial soft-budget constraint
... of rent points to the idea of benefits that are unearned, while rent-seeking refers to any form of behavior designed to redistribute in one’s favor the rents associated with particular assets or ...
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Government transparency and expenditure in the rent seeking industry: the case of Japan for 1998 2004
... follows. Rent-seeking behavior in the construction industry has a large positive effect on government expenditure on ...of rent-seeking behavior is still ...the rent-seeking ...
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Rent Seeking, Policy and Growth under Electoral Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence
... The theoretical model gives a three-equation system in economic growth, rent- seeking activities and the size of public sector. The system is first estimated for a panel of 25 OECD countries with three ...
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Overbidding and overspreading in rent seeking experiments: Cost structure and prize allocation rules
... Overbidding in rent-seeking contests (Tullock, 1980) is a robust phenomenon in the experimen- tal literature. This phenomenon was first reported in experimental contest studies by Millner and Pratt (1989, ...
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The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach
... Lopez and Pagoulatos (1994) noted that corruption groups expended to solicit government trade protection. The government protection would provide them with the chances for rent approximately 12.5% of consumption. ...
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Malaysian Public-Private Partnerships – Incentivising Private Sector Participation or Facilitating Rent-seeking?
... Abstract: While public-private collaboration can be traced to ancient times, the privatisation drive of Reagan–Thatcher, with endorsement from multilateral institutions, breathed new life into the initiative. Even as ...
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Rent Seeking Behavior and Optimal Taxation of Pollution in Shallow Lakes
... Some work in this direction has been carried out by Dockner and Wa- gener (2006) who study Markov-perfect Nash equilibria for the lake game and Kossioris et al. (2008), who have derived a feedback Nash equilibrium for a ...
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League Structure &Stadium Rent Seeking— the Role of Antitrust Revisited
... coordinated rent extraction that is facilitated by anticompetitive league structure is not completely analogous to the conduct of the trial lawyers in FTC ...stadium rent-seeking, any given ...
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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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Effective Corporate Tax Rate and Rent-Seeking: An International Comparison with the US
... Exxon Mobil, Bank of America, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Conoco Philips, all with net income in the billions, nevertheless received federal tax refunds (Oak, 2011) Numerous other high-profile companies such ...
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