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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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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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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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Rent-Seeking and Innovation [PDF]
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004 Innovations and their adoption are the keys to growth and development. Innovations are less socially useful, but more profitable for the innovator, when they are adopted slowly and the innovator remains a monopolist. For this reason, rent-seeking, both public and private, plays an important role in determining the social usefulness of innovations. This
Michele Boldrin, David K Levine
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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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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2022 The performance of a construction project can be severely harmed by its participants’ rent-seeking. In order to prevent such attempt, this research integrates the evolutionary game theory with system dynamics method to simulate the impact of the change ...
Weiwei Zuo, Qiankun Wang, Peng Li
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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2021 Major infrastructure projects (MIPs) possess significant strategic positions in the national economy and social development. However, recently, the rent-seeking behavior between supervision units and project contractors has intensified in project ...
Lelin Lv +4 more
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Complex Dynamic Analysis for a Rent-Seeking Game with Political Competition and Policymaker Costs
Mathematics, 2023 This paper investigates the dynamics of rent-seeking games that include political competition and policymaker cost model. The local asymptotic stability of multiple equilibrium points and Nash equilibrium points are studied.
Xiuqin Yang, Feng Liu, Hua Wang
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IMF Working Papers, 2005 Διπλωματική εργασία - Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.
Shankha Chakraborty, Era Dabla-Norris
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