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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Litigation aims at resolving conflicts. In this chapter we survey the law and economics literature on litigation to illustrate the scope of application of rent-seeking models and their analytical power in the study of law and procedural issues of litigation, including applications in adversarial and inquisitorial procedures, fee-shifting, consolidation
PARISI, FRANCESCO, Luppi, Barbara
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Litigation aims at resolving conflicts. In this chapter we survey the law and economics literature on litigation to illustrate the scope of application of rent-seeking models and their analytical power in the study of law and procedural issues of litigation, including applications in adversarial and inquisitorial procedures, fee-shifting, consolidation
PARISI, FRANCESCO, Luppi, Barbara
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Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 2020
This paper tests the political economy theory of the resource curse of the Iranian economy over the period 1984–2017. We find that natural resources dependence is harmful to economic development only if rent seeking activities exceed a minimum threshold.
R. Dell’Anno, M. Maddah
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This paper tests the political economy theory of the resource curse of the Iranian economy over the period 1984–2017. We find that natural resources dependence is harmful to economic development only if rent seeking activities exceed a minimum threshold.
R. Dell’Anno, M. Maddah
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, 2020
This study investigates the monopoly behavior of Chinese energy enterprises by measuring monopoly power, rent-seeking, and technological progress using relevant micro-data.
Weijian Du, Mengjie Li, Faming Wang
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This study investigates the monopoly behavior of Chinese energy enterprises by measuring monopoly power, rent-seeking, and technological progress using relevant micro-data.
Weijian Du, Mengjie Li, Faming Wang
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Journal of Environmental Management
This paper investigates the impact of regulatory distance on corporate environmental performance using data from Chinese A-share listed companies.
Chunguang Tang, Lei Tan, Xiaoxing Liu
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This paper investigates the impact of regulatory distance on corporate environmental performance using data from Chinese A-share listed companies.
Chunguang Tang, Lei Tan, Xiaoxing Liu
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Tolling academics: Rent-seeking and gatekeeping in the university space
, 2020Assuming the ‘neoliberalisation’ of academic life to be axiomatic, this article delves into the operations of its political economy with the aim of expanding critical vocabularies, analytical categories and research trajectories.
John Welsh
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Environmental regulation and enterprise behavior in China: rent-seeking or innovation?
Journal of Environmental Planning and ManagementWhile the Porter hypothesis posits that well-functioning markets and government regulations can promote enterprise innovation, it remains less clear in developing and transition economies.
Kairong Tang +3 more
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, 2020
The vertical management structure is widely used in America, Japan, China and other countries for the regulation of mining. However, the safety situation of mining in China is worse than that of America or Japan.
Lu Liu, Qiuhong Zhao, Yanlin Bi
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The vertical management structure is widely used in America, Japan, China and other countries for the regulation of mining. However, the safety situation of mining in China is worse than that of America or Japan.
Lu Liu, Qiuhong Zhao, Yanlin Bi
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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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Technological forecasting & social change, 2019
Although safety supervision systems for construction in China continue to improve, the rate of accidents remains high. Concerns have also been raised over the frequent occurrence of rent-seeking and its influence on the efficient enforcement of safety ...
Qun Feng, Xuejun Shi, Jianghua Zhang
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Although safety supervision systems for construction in China continue to improve, the rate of accidents remains high. Concerns have also been raised over the frequent occurrence of rent-seeking and its influence on the efficient enforcement of safety ...
Qun Feng, Xuejun Shi, Jianghua Zhang
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The dark side of rent-seeking: The impact of rent-seeking on earnings management
Journal of business research, 2018We use Chinese firm-level data from 2009 to 2014 to examine the impact of rent-seeking on a firm's earnings management, an important indicator of quality in accounting information.
Baohua Liu +3 more
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