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Pre‐Existing Distortions, Inter‐Industry Rent Seeking and the Welfare Cost of Policies Subject to Influence [PDF]
, 2014 Alex R. W. Robson
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Two-Stage Team Rent-Seeking: Experimental Analysis
, 2007 This paper presents a two-stage team rent-seeking model with a contest prize that is not excludable among winning team members. When early effort is a perfect substitute for late effort, early actors can free ride on their late-moving teammates. However,
Cadigan, John J.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What? [PDF]
Drawing on previously unused objective institutional data, we provide evidence for the causal link between rent-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the last 80 ...
Alberto Chong, César Calderón
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Sustainable EnvironmentThe growing demand for food owing to population growth has led to an increased need for fishery resources. Governments worldwide have introduced individual transferable quota (ITQ) systems to manage the resource depletion crisis.
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
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Severe, Non‐apneic Respiratory Dysfunction and Hypoxia following Generalized Convulsive Seizures
Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.Objective Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a devastating consequence of some generalized convulsive seizures (GCS). Recent work has focused on seizure related apnea as a biomarker of SUDEP risk, frequently without characterizing the adequacy of non‐apneic ventilation or identifying other dysfunctional breathing patterns.
Haley E. Pysick +9 more
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Why ruling politicians grow rich faster—Rent-seeking or selection bias? [PDF]
, 2020 Łukasz Wiktor Olejnik
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Voluntary Agreements under Endogenous Legislative Threats [PDF]
The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota.
Matthieu Glachant
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In order to reflect the actual production situation more comprehensively and optimize the production cost, this paper solves the short‐term scheduling optimization problem for a single pipeline containing high melting point crude oil. Based on the refining plan given by the upper layer, a multi‐objective optimization model with high melting ...
Jing Yao +5 more
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