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The pros and cons of rent-seeking: Political rent in various research paradigms
Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2021 This article shows that how we look at political rent and rent-seeking depends on our position on state interference in the economy and which theory of regulation we are familiar with.
Stefan Sękowski
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Institutionalized Rent-Seeking: The Case of Sugar Imports at the Indonesia-Malaysia Land Border
Jurnal Public Policy, 2023 This article explored the rent-seeking phenomenon in sugar imports at the Indonesia-Malaysia land border. The rent-seeking phenomenon in sugar imports involves many actors interested in importing sugar for business purposes.
Benediktus Hendro +3 more
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Mathematics, 2021 Multidimensional conflicts in farmland expropriation originate from the game of multidimensional interests between the local government and farmers. The strategy choices and equilibrium results of the two sides have evolved with changes to the situation ...
Yang Tang +3 more
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Natural Resources and Rent Seeking Collusion in the Context of Dutch Disease
İstanbul İktisat Dergisi, 2022 A new model is proposed in this paper by concentrating on the Dutch disease phenomenon along with rent seeking to demonstrate how a natural resource abundance (or a resource boom) affects resource movement and national income under rent seeking collusion
Anar Muradov
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The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach [PDF]
International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 2017 Rent-seeking in the trade sector is an outcome of restrictions imposed on tariffs and import quotas by a government. In an effort to acquire more privilege in foreign trade, labor allocates a part of its time-effort to rent-seeking activity, while ...
Samaneh Moghadasfar +2 more
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The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Spain’s Support Policies for Renewable Energy
Energies, 2021 This paper provides a theoretical framework to explore how the support policies for renewable energies can promote rent-seeking incentives in private firms.
Victor I. Espinosa +2 more
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EFFECTS OF RENT-SEEKING ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN LOW-INCOME ECONOMIES
Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2021 Sluggish growth in low-income countries, despite the high performance in other economic indicators, motivates the literature to switch attention to institutions.
Zi Wen Vivien Wong +2 more
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MethodsX, 2022 Governments have introduced local individual transferable quotas (ITQs) to maintain fishery resource sustainability. However, quota rent-seeking activities by fishermen may weaken ITQ's resource conservation effect in countries with immature private ...
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
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THE EFFECTS OF RENT SEEKING ACTIVITIES ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2022 This study investigates the effects of rent seeking activities on economic growth in 53 middle-income countries. Our data spans the period 2011 to 2020. We use the generalized method of moments estimator to examine the effects of rent-seeking activities ...
Zi Wen Vivien Wong +3 more
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Rent Dissipation in Simple Tullock Contests
Games, 2022 We investigate observed rent dissipation—the ratio of the total costs of rent seeking to the monetary value of the rent—in winner-take-all and share contests, where preferences are more general than usually assumed in the literature.
Alex Dickson +2 more
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