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On the optimal size of public sector under rent-seeking competition from state coffers
Park, Hyun; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; Vassilatos, Vanghelis - 2003
This paper incorporates competition for fiscal transfers (or, equivalently, rent seeking from state coffers) into a standard general equilibrium model of economic growth and endogenously chosen fiscal policy. The government generates tax revenues, but then each selfinterested individual agent...
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The interest group origins of the Bank of France
Rouanet, Louis - In: Public choice 186 (2021) 1/2, pp. 119-140
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Politics of randomness
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2002
clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513996
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Contests among bureaucrats
Bös, Dieter - 2002
This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total … departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The … antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the bureaucrats. This paper characterizes the Nash equilibria in lobbying and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514012
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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor);  … - 2005
It is known that anti-social redistributive activities (rent seeking, tax evasion, corruption, violation of property rights, delay of socially beneficial reforms, etc) hurt the macroeconomy. But it is less known what is the role of government size as a determinant of such activities. We use data...
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How to avoid transferring a valuable asset
Bucovetsky, Sam; Glazer, Amihai - In: Public choice 138 (2009) 1/2, pp. 3-8
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Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups with free riding
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - In: Public choice 139 (2009) 3/4, pp. 357-369
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985850
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Less fighting than expected : experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Kirchkamp, Oliver - In: Public choice 144 (2010) 1/2, pp. 347-367
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Policy persistence and rent extraction
Friedrich, Silke - 2013
The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...
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