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Litigation as rent seeking

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Litigation aims at resolving conflicts. In this chapter we survey the law and economics literature on litigation to illustrate the scope of application of rent-seeking models and their analytical power in the study of law and procedural issues of litigation, including applications in adversarial and inquisitorial procedures, fee-shifting, consolidation
PARISI, FRANCESCO, Luppi, Barbara
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Orchestrating Rent Seeking Contests

The Economic Journal, 1999
Contests have different, sometimes quite complex, organisational structures. In particular, while most of the existing literature focusses on simultaneous contests, multistage contests are also quite frequently encountered. This paper seeks to provide a rationale for the latter by endogenising the choice of a contest structure, which is made by an ...
Gradstein, M., Konrad, K.
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Rent-Seeking Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2014
The Russian economy is in transition period “from plan to market”, which is characterized by immature institutions and expansion of rent-seeking behavior. In this article, the authors consider rent as a possible excess return above the minimum income needed to encourage an agent to implement the actions specified by the principal.
M. Levin, G. Satarov
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