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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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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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Shipwrecked by Rents

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
The trade route between Manila and Mexico was a monopoly of the Spanish Crown for more than 250 years. The Manila Galleons were ``the richest ships in all the oceans'', but much of the wealth sank at sea and remain undiscovered. We introduce a newly constructed dataset of all of the ships that travelled this route.
Fernando Arteaga   +2 more
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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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