Method to analyse welfare effect of transferable quotas in an open economy with rent-seeking for quotas [PDF]
Governments have introduced local individual transferable quotas (ITQs) to maintain fishery resource sustainability. However, quota rent-seeking activities by fishermen may weaken ITQ's resource conservation effect in countries with immature private ...
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
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Rent-seeking and innovation [PDF]
Innovations and their adoption are the keys to growth and development. Innovations are less socially useful, but more profitable for the innovator, when they are adopted slowly and the innovator remains a monopolist.
David K. Levine, Michele Boldrin
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This paper examines the relationship between rent seeking and economic performance when governments cannot enforce property rights. With imperfect credit markets and a fixed cost to rent seeking, only wealthy agents choose to engage in it, as it allows ...
Era Dabla-Norris, Shankha Chakraborty
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Pharmaceutical enterprises integrity supervision strategy when considering rent-seeking behavior and government reward and punishment mechanism. [PDF]
The integrity of pharmaceutical enterprises is crucial to public health, social stability, and national security, consistently garnering attention from both the government and society.
Yanhua Chen, Lilong Zhu
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The pros and cons of rent-seeking: Political rent in various research paradigms
This article shows that how we look at political rent and rent-seeking depends on our position on state interference in the economy and which theory of regulation we are familiar with.
Stefan Sękowski
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Institutionalized Rent-Seeking: The Case of Sugar Imports at the Indonesia-Malaysia Land Border
This article explored the rent-seeking phenomenon in sugar imports at the Indonesia-Malaysia land border. The rent-seeking phenomenon in sugar imports involves many actors interested in importing sugar for business purposes.
Benediktus Hendro +3 more
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Multidimensional conflicts in farmland expropriation originate from the game of multidimensional interests between the local government and farmers. The strategy choices and equilibrium results of the two sides have evolved with changes to the situation ...
Yang Tang +3 more
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Natural Resources and Rent Seeking Collusion in the Context of Dutch Disease
A new model is proposed in this paper by concentrating on the Dutch disease phenomenon along with rent seeking to demonstrate how a natural resource abundance (or a resource boom) affects resource movement and national income under rent seeking collusion
Anar Muradov
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The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach [PDF]
Rent-seeking in the trade sector is an outcome of restrictions imposed on tariffs and import quotas by a government. In an effort to acquire more privilege in foreign trade, labor allocates a part of its time-effort to rent-seeking activity, while ...
Samaneh Moghadasfar +2 more
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The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Spain’s Support Policies for Renewable Energy
This paper provides a theoretical framework to explore how the support policies for renewable energies can promote rent-seeking incentives in private firms.
Victor I. Espinosa +2 more
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