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Evolutionary Rent-Seeking [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001
Tullock's analysis of rent-seeking is reconsidered from an evolutionary point of view. We show that evolutionarily stable behavior in a rent-seeking contest differs from efficient rent-seeking behavior in a Nash equilibrium. We explore that implications of evolutionary stability for rent-seeking behavior and relate them to the well examined Nash ...
Burkhard Hehenkamp, Wolfgang Leininger, Alex Possajennikov   +2 more
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Intersecting Sectors? The Connection Between Nonprofit Charities and Government Spending

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2017
In this paper, we articulate that rent-seeking behavior by nonprofit charities and budgetary discretionary behavior by public agents should lead to a positive correlation between nonprofit charity and government spending.
Deborah A. Carroll, Thad D. Calabrese
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Coexistence Of Profit-Seeking And Rentseeking Behaviors As An Evolutionary Stable Strategy In A Large-Population Playing The Field Model

Textos de Economia
This paper explores the coexistence of productive, profit-seeking behavior and unproductive, rent-seeking behavior using an evolutionary game approach.
Jaylson Jair da Silveira, Felipe Coelho Sigrist   +1 more
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The Effect of Rent-seeking Opportunities on Private Sector Deposits with Banks in Iranian Economy [PDF]

پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2016
Since private sector investment is dependent on people deposits with banks, the amount of deposits affects national investment and product. The various factors influence private deposits with banks.
majid maddah, Sara Ebrahimi
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Human Capital, Rent Seeking, and a Transition from Stagnation to Growth [PDF]

We present a growth model where agents divide time between rent seeking in the form of resource competition; and working in a human capital sector, interpreted as trade or manufacturing.
Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter, Tangerås, Thomas   +1 more
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Towards measuring political rents in agriculture: case studies of different agrarian structures in the EU

Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2018
It is generally believed that the subsidisation of agriculture serves as a payment of political rents to farmers. Here, we attempt to show that characterisation of the entire amount of subsidies as "political rent" is unjustified in the light of the ...
Bazyli CZYZEWSKI, Anna MATUSZCZAK
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Corruption and Rent-Seeking

Public Choice, 2002
The rent-seeking theory was one of thefirst economic instruments developed tomodel corruption in the public sector.Comparing corruption with lobbying, itproposes that the former is the lesser oftwo evils, since lobbying entails the wastage of resources inthe competition forpreferential treatment.
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Rent-Seeking Behavior and Economic Justice: A Classroom Exercise. [PDF]

East Econ J, 2023
Pacitti A, Cauvel M.
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Influencing rent-seeking contests

Public Choice, 2008
This paper shows that a policy that uniformly increases contestants’ effort costs can lead to an increase in total effort. In asymmetric settings, this “levels the playing field” and therefore encourages weaker players (who otherwise would have stayed out) to enter.
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The Political Economy of Public Land Use

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1997
Federal ownership and management of the public lands have created a rent-seeking frenzy, inflated rhetoric, wasted resources, and squandered investment opportunities.
B. Delworth Gardner
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