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The Rent Seeking Society Revisited: An extensive overview
Perspective Politice, 2018 This article aims to serve as an introduction to the main theoretical framework concerning the economic and political phenomena of rent-seeking, which entails a dynamic ensemble of market entities that wish to alter its configuration by institutional ...
Alexandru Marian TUDORACHE
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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior [PDF]
In this chapter, we propose a primer of the treatment that has received in the economic literature the problematic of entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior.
Marcus Dejardin
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Water Alternatives, 2013 In the early and mid-1980s, two seminal papers on agricultural water management came as a shock to the international professional community. They drew attention to the fact that public irrigation is particularly prone to rent-seeking and corruption. Both
Walter Huppert
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Dictators and Oligarchs: A Dynamic Theory of Contested Property Rights [PDF]
In an economy with weak economic and political institutions, the major institutional choices are made strategically by oligarchs and dictators. The conventional wisdom presumes that as rent-seeking is harmful for oligarchs themselves, institutions such ...
Konstantin Sonin, Sergei Guriev
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Discretionary power, rent-seeking and corruption. [PDF]
This article considers corruption as a breach of contract between a principal and an agent. This does not necessarily imply that corruption is immoral, for the nature of the violation actually depends on the features of the underlying contract.
Enrico Colombatto
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Auctions with rent seeking [PDF]
We present a model which combines elements of an auction and a rent-seeking contest. Players compete for a prize. Apart from exerting lobbying efforts, they also have to submit a bid which is payable only if they win the prize.
Haan, M., Schoonbeek, L.
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INCENTIVES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE BEHAVIOR OF THE RENTSEEKING BUREAUCRAT [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to analyze the incentives and constraints that a typical bureaucrat face in his or her daily activity and to present some conclusions related to the most likely behavior of bureaucrats.
Assist. PhD Student Radu Simandan
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Party Activists, Campaign Funding and the Quality of Government [PDF]
We study the formation of government policy in democracies when turnout depends on party activists and campaign spending ‐ parties’ ‘political capital’.
Andrew Pickering, John Maloney
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New Producer Strategies: The Emergence of Patron-Driven Entrepreneurship [PDF]
—Existing research treats the cooperative structure as relatively homogeneous. The proposed paper argues that all cooperatives are not created equal – and consideration of organizational structure is critical when analyzing the economic impact of ...
Burress, Molly J. +2 more
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