Corruption and Political Competition [PDF]
There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest groups ...
Erkan Yalcin, Richard Damania
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Internal Capital Markets Inside Financial Firms : Rent-Seeking Behavior Versus Cost of Capital [PDF]
, 2002 In this paper we build a two-tiered agency model of a financial firm that incorporates rent-seeking behavior from division managers, risk aversion from outside investors in a context of incomplete market and imperfect competition. We find no evidence for any socialislm inside internal capital markets.
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Individual Decision-Making to Commit a Crime: A Survey of Early Models [PDF]
The authors provide a survey of the most important findings of the early models of the economics of crime, namely the models of Becker, Ehrlich and Heineke.
Eva Kolomazníková, Roman Horváth
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IS "GETTING THE PRICES RIGHT" ALWAYS RIGHT? HOW TRADE LIBERALIZATION CAN FAIL [PDF]
We present a general equilibrium model with oligopsonistic market structure in one of the sectors. Buyers of inputs can set the price of inputs by being involved in rent seeking activities.
Gaitan, Beatriz, Pavel, Ferdinand
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Farming the Program: Rent-seeking Behavior Among Farmers and the Associated Deadweight Loss [PDF]
Farm Management,
Kirwan, Barrett E.
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Dynamic Tripartite Governance in data security: An evolutionary game model with cross-level government supervision. [PDF]
PLoS OneWang S, Zou K, Zou Y, Jiang Z.
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THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON MICROENTERPRISES IN RUSSIA [PDF]
Over the past decade, the repressive legal and regulatory environment in transition economies has received considerable attention in the literature. In Russia, this framework has resulted in an environment in which rules and regulations govern almost all
Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio +3 more
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Factors shaping health-seeking behavior among Myanmar migrant workers in Chiang Rai, Thailand. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthMin Z +5 more
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The prospective relationship between uptake of earned income tax credit (EITC), financial strain, and health in socio-economically strained families of Arab-American descent. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthArnetz BB +9 more
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A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship [PDF]
The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive, and destructive activities.
Desai,Sameeksha, Acs, Zoltan and Weitzel, Utz
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