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Rent-seeking, rent-defending, and rent dissipation

Public Choice, 1991
A substantial portion of the research on rent-seeking addresses the issue of rent dissipation. This line of inquiry is drawn directly from Tullock’s (1967) stated intent to identify the total social costs of monopoly. Early studies, which were concerned with the measurement of Tullock costs, simply assumed dissipation would be complete (see Becker ...
Chris Paul, Al Wilhite
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Womb rent

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1980
The relationship between gestational age at delivery and the cost of neonatal care was analyzed for 137 infants of 24 to 34 weeks' gestation born between 1973 and 1977. Cost estimates were based on hospital charges actually collected, adjusted to 1977 rates and weighted according to a smoothed survival curve.
J J, Pomerance   +2 more
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Generation rent and the financialization of housing: a comparative exploration of the growth of the private rental sector in Ireland, the UK and Spain

Housing Studies, 2020
This article analyses the growth of the private rental sector over recent years through a comparative analysis of three classic homeowner societies: Ireland, the UK and Spain.
Michael Byrne
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L'animal de rente. Quelle rente ?

2021
Cet article propose une déconstruction de la catégorie d’« animal de rente ». Partant de l’usage qui en est fait au 18e siècle par les économistes, nous montrons que la notion de rente, utilisée initialement pour caractériser le rendement des terres agricoles, est ensuite étendue aux animaux de ferme.
Porcher, Jocelyne   +3 more
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Renting Ideas

The Journal of Business, 1991
Textbook models fail to explain royalty and fee-pricing arrangements in the patent and trade-secret licenses discussed here. A theory of royalty pricing as an efficient tax and as a performance bond explains more. Royalty taxes help coordinate user outputs to maximize the joint value of a common customer pool.
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Risk-Averse Rent Seeking With Shared Rents

The Economic Journal, 1987
This paper presents a Nash equilibrium model of rent-seeking behavior in which risk-averse players expend resources to obtain a share of a rent, as for example in contests for import quota licences. Results are obtained relating the equilibrium level of lobbying effort by each player to the value of the rent.
Long, Ngo Van, Vousden, Neil J
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Seeking Rents by Setting Rents: The Political Economy of Rent Seeking

The Economic Journal, 1987
In recent years, there has been a large number of papers on the subject of rent seeking. Most such works on rent seeking have taken the rent as exogenously determined by regulators. Regulators, howeve r, may also be expected (and indeed have been shown) to be rent seeke rs and hence the determination of the rent itself should be endogeniz ed to reflect
Appelbaum, Elie, Katz, Eliakim
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Rent gap reloaded: Airbnb and the shift from residential to touristic rental housing in the Palma Old Quarter in Mallorca, Spain

Urban studies, 2018
In light of the advent of Airbnb, rent gap theory can be helpful for understanding how tourist rentals affect residential rental housing. It is argued that on those properties currently rented to residents, rental payments are not only ‘actual ground ...
Ismael Yrigoy
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