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Short-term or long-term contracts? - A rent-seeking perspective [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper, firms engage in rent seeking in order to be assigned a governmental contract. We analyze how a change in the contract length affects the firms' rent-seeking behavior.
Gürtler, Oliver
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Those who can't sort, steal: caste, occupational mobility, and rent-seeking in rural India. [PDF]
J Demogr Economics, 2021 Lawson N, Spears D.
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Rent-Seeking in Developed and Developing Countries: Cross Section and Time Series Studies [PDF]
The property rights issue is one of the most important institutional differences between developed/developing countries. The violation of the property rights results with rentseeking.
Dilek Demirbas
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IMPROVEMENT OF RENT RELATIONS AS A FACTOR OF INCREASING THEENERGY EFFICIENCY OF UKRAINIAN ECONOMY
Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2014 The article addresses prerequisites and consequences of counterproductive rent-seeking behavior of economic agents as a factor that contributes to the low energy efficiency of the national economy.Author justifies the necessity and strategic directions ...
А. Grazhevska
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Rent-seeking, Occupational Choice and Oil Boom. [PDF]
This paper examines choice of occupation between productive activities and rent-seeking in an oil-dominated economy where oil rent is the major source of public revenue.
Farhad Nili, Gabriel Talmain
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Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2019 Objective: The objective of this study is to propose a model for talent allocation to economic activities and rent-seeking based on some effective factors.
Rozita Moayedfar, Mohsen Madani Chafi
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Economic Convergence and Rent-Seeking in Iran [PDF]
The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied.
Christian Dreger +2 more
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Corporate political connection, rent seeking and government procurement order
International Review of Economics & FinanceGovernment procurement serves as the primary means through which the government utilizes market mechanisms to forge economic linkages with enterprises.
Zhe Wang +3 more
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Multi-Period Rent-Seeking Contests with Carryover: Theory and Experimental Evidence [PDF]
The majority of theoretical and experimental research stemming from Tullock’s (1980) model of rent-seeking considers static, single-period contests. This paper contributes to a growing body of research on multi-period rent-seeking contests by developing ...
John Cadigan +3 more
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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What? [PDF]
Drawing on previously unused objective institutional data, we provide evidence for the causal link between rent-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the last 80 ...
Alberto Chong, César Calderón
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