governments that are prepared to bar competition in exchange for political rent. Our results show that the retail-import price …

that the usual analysis of economic rent, as typically explained for the case of consumers' surplus, carries over to the … case of derived demand. -- derived demand ; indirect demand ; consumers's surplus ; economic rent …

The social costs of rent seeking are generally evaluated with respect to rent dissipation. A common assumption is … complete rent dissipation so that the value of a contested rent is the value of social loss. When rent seekers earn taxable … income, there is interdependence between the social cost of rent seeking through rent dissipation and the excess burden of …

that the classic hold-up problem does not necessarily survive. We also derive conditions under which rent-seeking by unions …

Rent seeking within the vast informal segment of the developing world is a relatively underdexplored topic in the … interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … rent seeking in the informal sector and raise the pay-off for those involved in rent seeking activities. When formal sector …

bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent …