Rent-seeking and corruption
Discretionary power, rent-seeking and corruption.
... DC corruption can indeed be considered efficient, in that it reduces transaction costs, makes agents' behaviour predictable, stabilizes the institutional ...extreme corruption in DCs is due to misjudgment ...
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Can Contested Primaries and Turnout in Primaries Reduce Corruption and Rent-Seeking?
... Abstract Rent‐seeking and corruption involving elected officials represent a betrayal of citizen trust, and many scholars believe these acts have detrimental impacts on economic ...of ...
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Rent seeking and the economics of corruption
... of rent seeking itself highlights an important ...of seeking preferential treatment involves the outputs or income from the production process or it involves the direct use of factors of ...of ...
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Clientelism, rent-seeking and protection :a study of corruption in Iraq after 2003
... of corruption travel to different contexts? In other words, is there a universal concept of corruption? All the above theories have their own historical, conceptual baggage, and a single concept cannot ...
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Anti Corruption, Government Subsidies and Corporate Innovation Investment—Based on the Perspective of Rent Seeking Theory
... of rent-reeking and thus affect the effectiveness of govern- ment subsidies on enterprise innovation ...on corruption and rent-seeking activities, which leads to a decline in ...
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High-level rent-seeking and corruption in African regimes : theory and cases
... (4) A kleptocrat may need to permit lower level officials to share in the corrupt gains thus introducing additional costs over and above the problems faced by all rulers seeking to contr[r] ...
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Essays on the Political Economy of Corruption and Rent-Seeking
... why corruption most often goes hand in hand with cliquish behavior based on “connections” rather than with the open process by which the highest bidder among all possible customers engages in the corrupt ...
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Economic Convergence and Rent-Seeking in Iran
... and corruption can hamper the economic ...of rent-seeking started with the pioneering work of Tullock (1967, 1971) and Krueger ...and rent-seeking activities depends on the reward ...
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Rent Seeking and Reform: Relationship Revisited
... of corruption (see Ades and Di Tella (1999) 2 , Lambsdorff ...between rent-seeking and corruption no longer holds: moderate/drastic reform raises the level of ...However corruption ...
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Education, Rent Seeking and Growth
... analyzes rent seeking behavior, it also relates to a large literature showing that property rights protection positively affects ...and corruption (see Knack and Keefer (1995, ...
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Education, Rent Seeking and Growth
... analyzes rent seeking behavior, it also relates to a large literature showing that property rights protection positively affects ...and corruption (see Knack and Keefer (1995, ...
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RENT SEEKING AND THE RESOURCE CURSE
... a rent-seeking culture and a patron-client system of governance (Karl ...to rent seeking enticed individuals with entrepreneurial talent, who otherwise might have been the creators of wealth ...
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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior
... for corruption. Moreover, the socially unproductive transfers that corruption implies may inhibit some innovative activity, given that innovators may not have equal lobbying power compared to that of ...
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Foreign aid and rent-seeking
... To address the relationship between concessional Svensson provides some preliminary empirical assistance, corruption, and other types of rent-seeking evidence in support of the [r] ...
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Rent seeking and aid effectiveness
... to rent seeking, and that rent seeking, in turn, may lower aid effectiveness, goes back at least to Bauer ...of corruption and rent seeking on economic growth (see, ...
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Family Control and the Rent-Seeking Society
... pervasive corruption and oligarchic corporate control. Ending corruption is a hopeless task if a small number of leading families continue to control most business interests and have a comparative advantage ...
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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 AND INNOVATION
... Scotchmer [ 2001] examines the political economy of patent treaties - an important topic, but not one directly related to the issue of public versus private rent-seeking. From a broader perspective we are ...
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Rent-Seeking and Innovation
... life of the industry when demand is still quite elastic and the number of entrepreneurs is very large. It is in the mature stage where demand is inelastic, few firms are either around or entering, and returns on ...
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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior
... if rent-seeking affects innovation and economic growth, the actual net effects of rent-seeking are not always as clear as the above cited literature on rent- seeking ...But ...
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