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Rent Seeking Behavior in the Indian Economy
INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENTRent seeking Behaviour, is an economic concept, that occurs when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. The concept is devised from Adam Smith’s ideologies. Here, rent refers to wealth derived from potentially unethical sources or means. Such income is low risk and is easier to obtain.
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INCENTIVES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE BEHAVIOR OF THE RENTSEEKING BUREAUCRAT [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to analyze the incentives and constraints that a typical bureaucrat face in his or her daily activity and to present some conclusions related to the most likely behavior of bureaucrats.
Assist. PhD Student Radu Simandan
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American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 2016 With the development of market economy, accounting for rent-seeking has become the new research directions in the field of accounting. Under the background of international convergence and equivalent of accounting standards, introduction of fair value measurement also becomes a hot topic.
Xing Liu, Shasha Cao
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REGULATORY CAPTURE OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION AREA: THE ANALYSIS OF SOME ASPECTS
Высшее образование в России, 2016 The article investigates certain aspects of the national higher education system of Russian Federation. Special attention is paid to the presence of formal and informal mechanisms that facilitate the capture of regulation and rent extraction by the ...
Ekaterina I. Trubnikova
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Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets [PDF]
The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and enhance efficiency. However, when reforms are partial and incremental, individuals and local governments are often able to capture the rent inherent in the gradual transition process.
Tan, Kong-Yam, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Determinants of Agricultural Disaster Payments in the Southeastern U.S.: County Level Analysis [PDF]
Using county level data we study if weather and climate variables or variables used as proxies for rent-seeking behavior determine disaster payment in the Southeast. We do not find evidence of rent-seeking but find that, in addition to weather, long term
Nadolnyak, Denis A., Novak, James L.
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Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2016 The paper analyzes premises of rent-seeking behaviour of economic actors on the banking service market in Ukraine. The authors determine essential economic consequences of rent-seeking behaviour in the national banking system and put forward some ...
N. Grazhevska +2 more
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Is there a resource curse in Timor-Leste? A critical review of recent evidence
Development Studies Research, 2020 Shortly after oil production commenced in 2004, Timor-Leste became one of the most oil dependent countries in the world. The purpose of this piece is to assess whether Timor-Leste has been suffering from the typical political and economic ailments ...
Samuel John +2 more
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Do Foreign Aid Transfers Distort Incentives and Hurt Growth? Theory and Evidence from 75 Aid-recipient Countries [PDF]
, 2004 In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities.
Economides, George +2 more
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ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2016 In Indonesia, as in many other countries of the global South, processes to formalize rights over land have been implemented with the intention to reduce deforestation, decrease poverty and increase tenure security. Literature on de jure processes of land
Yvonne Kunz +3 more
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