This paper examines the possibility of endogenous determination of intra-group sharing rules in a collective-group rent-seeking game. Collective-group rent-seeking is considered as a two-stage Nash-Cournot game in which sharing rules are determined prior to individual decision on voluntary...

This note examines the social cost of rent seeking when firms seek rent by obtaining government subsidies as well as by securing a monopoly position. The social cost of rent seeking proves to be represented by the new Tullock rectangle. Copyright 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

We examine a two-stage contest in which players in two groups compete noncooperatively to win a rent. In the first stage, each group selects a finalist. The two finalists compete for the rent in the second stage. First-stage efforts are carried over to the second stage in the sense that they are...