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Rent Seeking

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Volume 1, 2019
Contestable benefits or rents are of primary importance for the study of public finance and public policy. Rents are assigned through decisions about budgetary spending and taxation.
A. Hillman, N. Long
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New rent seeking strategies in housing in Spain after the bubble burst

European Planning Studies, 2018
This paper analyses the new rent seeking strategies in housing implemented during Spain’s financial crisis. The Spanish Model presents a paradigmatic case of the need for capital to reinvent itself through the articulation of new mechanisms for the ...
Sònia Vives-Miró
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Risk-Averse Rent Seeking With Shared Rents

The Economic Journal, 1987
This paper presents a Nash equilibrium model of rent-seeking behavior in which risk-averse players expend resources to obtain a share of a rent, as for example in contests for import quota licences. Results are obtained relating the equilibrium level of lobbying effort by each player to the value of the rent.
Long, Ngo Van, Vousden, Neil J
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Rents and Rent-Seeking

1988
Rents are a perfectly good economic category and there is absolutely nothing in general against seeking them. If I were to invent and patent a cure for cancer and then became extremely wealthy by claiming rents on the patent, most people would regard me as a public benefactor. Nevertheless, “rent-seeking” is regarded as an unadulterated evil.
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Economic development in a rent-seeking society: socialism, state capitalism and crony capitalism in Vietnam

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 2018
This article explains Vietnam’s economic growth and industrial development despite the strong rent-seeking features of its economy. We employed three analytical rent-seeking models to assess three industries: textile-garment and telecommunications, both ...
C. Ngo, Vlad Tarko
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Rent-seeking, rent-defending, and rent dissipation

Public Choice, 1991
A 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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Do Green Credit Guidelines Impact on Heavily Polluting Firms in Rent-seeking?

Finance Research Letters, 2022
Qian Zhong, Liyan Han, Jiayu Jin
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Organized Crime in Michoacán: Rent-Seeking Activities in the Avocado Export Market

Politics and Policy, 2018
The aim of this article is to contribute to the existing measurements on extortions by organized crime and assess the impact of this predatory activity on economic growth.
Ruth G. Ornelas
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A General Theory of Rent-Seeking: Rent Dissipating, Rent Keeping, and Rent-Seeking

2020
As long as the value of various resources differs through their varied uses, the concept of “rent” can be deduced from the concept of land rent. This rent equals “income.” That said, when no exclusive right exists to the rent, regardless of whether naturally or artificially generated, the phenomenon of “rent dissipation” exists.
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Rent Seeking over Tradable Emission Permits

Environmental and Resource Economics, 2021
Ashwin Rode
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