Analyzing the Link Between Population Diversity, Population Growth, and Income: A Panel Data Study
Journal of Indonesian Economy and BusinessIntroductions: Amidst shifting demographics across many countries, certain stylized facts related to fertility, population, and income have become less universally applicable as previously established empirical models of fertility were based on long ...
Irfan Aziz Al Firdaus +2 more
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Rent Seeking at Plant Level: An Application of the Card-De la Rica Tenure Model to Workers in German Works Councils [PDF]
Low-skilled workers enjoy a large wage advantage in German works council establishments. Since job tenure is also longer for these workers, one explanation might be rent-seeking.
John T. Addison +2 more
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A new scramble for land or an unprecedented opportunity for the rural poor? Distributional consequences of increasing land rents in developing countries [PDF]
, 2014 Price induced increases in land rents trigger an increasing incentive for rent-seeking behavior. To analyse distributional and welfare effects of increasing land rents in developing countries, we develop a game theoretic model where a large and ...
Henningsen, Geraldine, Hvid, Anna
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Cogent Food & AgricultureChina has established the world’s most stringent cultivated land protection policies (CLPP) system. However, the key to policy is its implementation.
Yanwei Zhang +3 more
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Unique equilibrium in contests with incomplete information [PDF]
, 2013 Szidarovszky and Okuguchi (Games and Economic Behavior, 1997) have provided useful conditions for the existence of a unique pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games of complete information.
Ewerhart, Christian, Quartieri, Federico
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Can Rent-Seeking Behavior and Corruption Impact the Economic Wealth of European Union Member States? [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences SeriesCorruption and rent-seeking are widespread issues affecting economies regardless of their European Union (EU) membership or development level. This study aims to empirically analyze how these behaviors influence the economic performance of EU member ...
Mihaela Barbuta (Matei)
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Do Foreign Aid Transfers Distort Incentives and Hurt Growth? Theory and Evidence from 75 Aid-recipient Countries [PDF]
In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities.
Apostolis Philippopoulos +2 more
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On the Optimal Size of Public Sector under Rent-Seeking competition from State Coffers [PDF]
, 2003 This paper incorporates competition for fiscal transfers (or, equivalently, rent seeking from state coffers) into a standard general equilibrium model of economic growth and endogenously chosen fiscal policy.
Park, Hyun +2 more
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On the Welfare Consequences of Political Activity [PDF]
When economic actors are also allowed to become politically active, perhaps to influence a government price policy, they face decision problems with essentially simultaneous political and economic features.
Coggins, Jay S.
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Submodularity and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior [PDF]
Vega-Redondo (1997) showed that imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome in Cournot Oligopoly. We generalize his result to aggregative quasi-submodular games.
Burkhard Schipper
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