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Crowding-out in Productive and Redistributive Rent-Seeking. [PDF]
This paper presents a general rent-seeking model in which participants decide on entry before choosing their levels of efforts. The conventional wisdom in the rent-seeking literature suggests that the rent dissipation increases with the number of ...
Bruno Lovat +3 more
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Rent-Seeking Practices, Local Resource Curse, and Social Conflict in Uganda’s Emerging Oil Economy
Land, 2019 We consider the different types of rent-seeking practices in emerging oil economies, and discuss how they contribute to social conflict and a local resource curse in the Albertine Graben region of Uganda.
Tom Ogwang, F. Vanclay, A. Assem
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AI–Guided 4D Printing of Carnivorous Plants–Inspired Microneedles for Accelerated Wound Healing
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work presents an artificial intelligence (AI)‐guided 4D‐printed microneedle platform inspired by carnivorous plants for wound healing. A thermo‐responsive shape memory polymer enables body temperature–triggered self‐coiling for autonomous wound closure.
Hyun Lee +21 more
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Decentralization, Rent-seeking and Corporate Performance
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2015 By 2010--2013 years of experience in China A-share listed companies, we found rent-seeking behavior of enterprises has had two major effects: creative production inhibitory effect and relational resources favoritism effect.
J.J. Li, H.X. Yu, Y.J. Zhao
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Wafer‐Scale Single‐Crystal Boron Nitride: Synthesis and Integration in 2D Electronics
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.This Review highlights recent breakthroughs in wafer‐scale hBN synthesis and its integration into next‐generation 2D electronics. We analyze growth kinetics, epitaxial strategies, and stacking‐sequence control while correlating material quality with device performance.
Jaewon Wang, Soon‐Yong Kwon
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Two-Dimensional Effort in Patent-Race Games and Rent-Seeking Contests: The Case of Telephony
Games, 2014 Using the political-economic history of the development of telephony during the 1870s as a backdrop, this paper studies a two-player Tullock contest that includes both research effort (R&D) and legal effort (i.e., rent-seeking effort).
João Ricardo Faria +3 more
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State-owned enterprises in the modern economy: the objectives and determinants of efficiency
Ekonomista, 2023 This article aims to identify the conditions under which state-owned enterprises can be beneficial to a modern capitalist economy. These enterprises face two major issues: multiple financial and non-financial objectives and their assessment; and rent ...
Katarzyna Szarzec
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ADVANTAGEOUS MULTIPLE RENT SEEKING
Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 1989 This paper analyzes a special rent seeking game which has not been studied in the literature on pressure groups competition, rent seeking, lobbying or auctions. We consider a multiple rent contest where n identical allocators (players) with constrained resources compete under full information over a fixed supply of m \((2\leq ...
Gradstein, Mark, Nitzan, Shmuel
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Two‐Way Shape Memory Polymer Composite Gripper for Adaptive Robotic Applications
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A two‐way shape memory polymer (SMP) composite is developed with intrinsic shape‐changing capability driven solely by temperature, eliminating external actuation loads. Embedding the SMP in a low‐stiffness elastomeric matrix enabled reversible transformations during heating and cooling cycles.
Aamna Hameed, Kamran Ahmed Khan
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Rent-seeking behaviour and ẓulm (injustice/exploitation) beyond ribā-interest equation
ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance, 2019 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of rent-seeking behaviour and rentier state in the context of ẓulm (injustice and exploitation), which is one of the key concerns in Islam in general and Islamic economics and finance in ...
M. Farooq
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