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The Instrumentalization of CSR by Rent-Seeking Governments: Lessons From Tanzania
Business & Society, 2022This article examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can serve as an external source of rents for governments that depend on foreign financing for state-building and development.
Eva Nilsson
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Rent-Seeking and Criminal Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021We study how natural resource rents affect the selection and behavior of holders of public office. Using global price shocks to thirty-one minerals and nationwide geological and political data from India, we show that local mineral rent shocks cause the ...
S. Asher, P. Novosad
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A Rent-Seeking Framework for Multipath TCP
Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, 2021Network utility maximization (NUM) for Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a challenging task, since there is no well-defined utility function for MPTCP [6]. In this paper, we identify the conditions under which we can use Kelly's NUM mechanism, and explicitly ...
Shiva Raj Pokhrel, C. Williamson
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Power and rent-seeking on boards: a case study of national sport federations in India
, 2021Rent-seeking refers to the activities of individuals or groups who act to increase their personal benefits at the expense of organizations or wider society.
J. McLeod, D. Shilbury, G. Zeimers
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Rent-seeking in an emerging market: A DSGE approach
, 2021Due to the fact that rent-seeking is by definition an unobservable variable, measuring its size and evolution over the business cycle can be a daunting challenge.
Celso Júnior +1 more
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Seeking Rents by Setting Rents: The Political Economy of Rent Seeking
The Economic Journal, 1987In 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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