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Governing Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2011
In a contest group-specific public goods we consider the effect that managing an interest group has on the rent dissipation and the total expected payoffs of the contest. While in the first group, there is a central planner determining its members' expenditure in the contest, in the second group...
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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...
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Strategic restraint in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2000
lobbying activities. …
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Social Capital, Rent Seeking and Community-Based Interest Groups
Chamlee-Wright, Emily L.; Storr, Virgil Henry - 2011
While there is now a large literature on the negative aspects of social capital, recent discussions of social capital within the public choice literature have tended to focus on the positive role of social capital in solving collective action problems and promoting political accountability....
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Exploring the linkage between corruption and economic development in the case of selected developing and developed nations
Audi, Marc; Ali, Amjad - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 9 (2019) 4, pp. 37-49
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Reversing the resource curse : foreign corruption regulation and economic development
Christensen, Hans B.; Maffett, Mark; Rauter, Thomas - 2020
We examine the impact of foreign corruption regulation on economic development in highcorruption-risk areas. We find … subject to the FCPA increases by 8%. Local perceptions of corruption also significantly decline. Consistent with the increase … activity increases by 37%. Overall, our findings suggest that anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is …
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Nonlinearities and parameter instability in the finance-growth nexus
Prettner, Catherine - 2016
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How costly is rent-seeking to diversification : an empirical approach
Waldemar, Felipe Starosta de - 2010 - This version: May 2010
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Vikings in Greece : Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent -Seeking Economy
Mitsopoulos, Michael S. - 2011
Last December, downtown Athens experienced three nights of street battles, arson, and looting that became headlines in the international press. We argue that the reasons for this extreme social turbulence are related to the regulatory and institutional rigidities that still prevail in Greece's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125195
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Vikings in Greece : Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy
Mitsopoulos, Michael S. - 2013
Last December, downtown Athens experienced three nights of street battles, arson, and looting that became headlines in the international press. We argue that the reasons for this extreme social turbulence are related to the regulatory and institutional rigidities that still prevail in Greece's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082364