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Education, Rent Seeking and Growth [PDF]
This paper studies the role of education as a way of reducing private rent seeking activities and increasing output. In many underdeveloped economies, for most individuals, there is no private return to education.
Berdugo, Binyamin, Meir, Uri
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Regional Policy and rent-seeking [PDF]
The most important policy instrument to promote regional development in the European Union is Strucutral Funds, covering approximately a third of the EU budget.
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Nicola Daniele Coniglio
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From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand [PDF]
, 2000 I present a study of ownership of firms under government rent seeking. Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment.
Che, Jiahua
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The Production Function for Votes [PDF]
The Vote Production Function (VPF) has a party's vote depending on (a) its potential vote and (b) the party organization which actualizes it - 'political capital'.
Andrew Pickering, John Maloney
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Rent-seeking competition from state coffers in Greece: a calibrated DSGE model [PDF]
We incorporate an uncoordinated redistributive struggle for extra fiscal privileges and favors into an otherwise standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model.
Apostolis Philippopoulos +3 more
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The price of power: a public choice approach to Hunter Biden’s art sales
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis study examines the market for Hunter Biden’s art, with an eye toward the art’s value as a rent seeking device that benefitted Hunter and the wider Biden family. More specifically, this study asserts that the usefulness of Hunter Biden’s art sales as
Franklin G. Mixon
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Are anticompetitive behaviours rampant in global retail energy markets? A study of price elasticity, asymmetric price adjustment and rent-seeking. [PDF]
Energy Res Soc Sci, 2020 Ogbuabor JE, Orji A, Anthony-Orji OI.
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On the effects of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking [PDF]
This paper deals with the influence of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking activities of local interest groups. It employs a model where households differ with respect to their endowment with the immobile factor land.
Lorz, Jens Oliver
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Foreign aid and rent-seeking [PDF]
To address the relationship between concessional assistance, corruption, and other types of rent-seeking activities, the author provides a simple game-theoretic rent-seeking model.
Svensson, Jakob
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