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Rent-seeking behavior of BIM- and IPD-based construction project in China
Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2017Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the rent-seeking behavior of stakeholders in construction projects and to provide a reference for further studies on collaboration in China, which could thus improve the collaborative management in construction and reduce the waste of resources.
Tingting Mei +3 more
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Economic Rent, Rent-Seeking Behavior, and the Case of Privatized Incarceration
2018The concept of economic rent is among the oldest in political economy. This reflects the fact that economies have always included parties whose income appears more parasitic than productive. The concept of rent-seeking refers to the efforts of parties seeking to secure such income by way of gaining influence over economic regulation or otherwise ...
Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn
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The social cost of rent seeking when consumer opposition influences monopoly behavior
European Journal of Political Economy, 2003Abstract In this paper, we show how consumer opposition to monopoly rents affects choice of monopolistic price, and thereby determines the social cost of rent seeking. Our model differs from pervious analyses, which have been based on the assumption that the monopolist always chooses the profit-maximizing monopoly price, which is not, however, a ...
Gil S Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
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Rent-seeking and the behavior of regulators: An empirical analysis
Public Choice, 1991The main contribution of this paper is to describe empirically how the rent-seeking process takes place in a regulated industry through the consistency in Board decisions. Evidence provided by discrete-choice decision models of regulators confirms that the conventional rent-seeking view of regulation is correct, namely to distribute wealth between ...
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Rent-seeking Behaviors and the Perpetuation of Aid Dependence: The Donor-Side Story
2007This, the first book in the Global Development Network series, brings together the views of researchers from the developing and developed world and provides models of successful research conducted in developing and transition countries.
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The Relationship of Rent-Seeking Behavior to Impacted Information in Public Utility Regulation
The Journal of Business, 1990This article demonstrates the rent seeking by customers of regulated electric utilities in the form of rate suppression leads to a set of regulated prices that is not Pareto optimal over time. A multiperiod economic model of rate regulation shows that, if customers are willing to accept immediate short-term losses in economic welfare to allow the ...
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Rent Seeking Behavior and Optimal Taxation of Pollution in Shallow Lakes [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper we extend earlier work on the economics of shallow lakes by M\"aler, Xepapadeas and de Zeeuw (2003) to the case where two communities have incommensurable preferences about lake eutrophication. In the case of incommensurable preferences interest group behavior arises, we therefore consider the case where society is divided into two ...
Salerno, Gillian +2 more
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Rent-Seeking Behavior as a Determinant of Various Forms of Destructive Entrepreneurship
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Taking into account the fact that in general entrepreneurship is perceived as a factor that leads to the growth and development of the economy, the examination of entrepreneurship that impacts negatively country’s welfare appears to be a very significant problem. The objective of the project was to analyse the phenomenon of destructive entrepreneurship
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Rent Seeking Behavior, Political Parties and Universities
Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 2010Munirul H Nabin, Pasqaule M Sgro
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