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Can lower tax rates be bought? Business rent-seeking and tax competition among US States
Chirinko, Robert S.; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2010
allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273815
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Corruption and Economic Growth : New Empirical Evidence
Gründler, Klaus - 2019
The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861457
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Political parties and network formation
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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Persuasion as a contest
Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2007
From marketing and advertising to political campaigning and court proceedings, contending parties expend resources to persuade an audience of the correctness of their view. We examine how the probability of persuading the audience depends on the resources expended by the parties, so that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264260
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally tolerable. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264357
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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives
Long, Ngo Van; Sengupta, Bodhisattva - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …
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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2009
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
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Urban squatting with rent-seeking organizers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2012
This paper extends a new line of research on urban squatting that focuses on the role of the squatter organizer. The model replaces the benevolent organizer from previous studies with a collection of competing, rent-seeking squatter organizers, a structure that may offer a realistic picture of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288251
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The Dynastic Transmission of Power, Exit Options and the Coevolution of Rent-Seeking Elites
Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2023
We introduce a dynamic model that investigates the persistence and evolution of elite-dominated societies, where inherited political capital determines one’s social standing. Our analysis highlights the critical role of the distribution of exit options in the evolution of political...
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