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Taxation of rent-seeking activities
Journal of Public Economics, 1999We consider taxes on firms which engage in rent-seeking contests. The taxes can be on realized profits or on rent-seeking expenditures. The prize can be awarded to either the highest bidder, or to a firm with probability proportional to its share of total spending on lobbying.
Kai Konrad, Amihai Glazer
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Rent-seeking, rent-defending, and rent dissipation
Public Choice, 1991A 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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Committees and Rent-Seeking Effort
Journal of Public Economics, 1984Committees are widely used by nearly all social organizations as a means of developing and implementing policies that often have clear distributive implications. Applications range from academic committees responsible for conferring minor student awards to corporate, congressional, and party committees responsible for decisions that have substantial ...
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The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance and to modeling and predicting the behavior ...
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Orchestrating Rent Seeking Contests
The Economic Journal, 1999Contests have different, sometimes quite complex, organisational structures. In particular, while most of the existing literature focusses on simultaneous contests, multistage contests are also quite frequently encountered. This paper seeks to provide a rationale for the latter by endogenising the choice of a contest structure, which is made by an ...
Gradstein, M., Konrad, K.
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Rent-seeking in bank credit and firm R&D innovation: The role of industrial agglomeration
Journal of Business Research, 2023Yunhe Li, Xiaotian Tina Zhang
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The distributional consequences of rent‐seeking
Economic Inquiry, 2021Konstantinos Angelopoulos +1 more
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Rent seeking and rent extraction
This authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume.openaire +1 more source