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Innovationspolitik und rent seeking : zur politischen Ökonomie der staatlichen Förderung unternehmerischer Innovationen

Henze, Michael - 1992

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Renteneinkommen auf dem Rohölmarkt : Analyse der Preiskomponenten

Wakeel, Latif al- - 1992

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Theory and Practice of ITQ's in Iceland; Privatisation of Common Fisheries Resources

Eythorsson, Einar - 1995

common property rights into private property rights under the ITQ regime, is basically consistent with the economic theory of … ITQ's, though this part of the theory is often undercommunicated in the political rethorics. In the Icelandic case, the … theory of ITQ's also assumes that quota market prices will reflect the resource rent generated by the fisheries under an ITQ …

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The provision of lighthouses services: a political economy perspective

Carnis, Laurent - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 1, pp. 51-56

Ronald Coase’s <CitationRef CitationID="CR8">1974</CitationRef> article on lighthouses and the Trinity House case, in particular, has triggered extensive debate on the notion of a public good, but also on the possibility of private production of public goods. The resultant literature has discussed the concept of private property and the...</citationref>

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The optimal prize structure of symmetric Tullock contests

Schweinzer, Paul; Segev, Ella - In: Public Choice 153 (2012) 1, pp. 69-82

We show that the optimal prize structure of symmetric n-player Tullock tournaments assigns the entire prize pool to the winner, provided that a symmetric pure strategy equilibrium exists. If such an equilibrium fails to exist under the winner-take-all structure, we construct the optimal prize...

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Who gains from information asymmetry?

Epstein, Gil; Mealem, Yosef - In: Theory and Decision 75 (2013) 3, pp. 305-337

This article considers an asymmetric contest with incomplete information. There are two types of players: informed and uninformed. Each player has a different ability to translate effort into performance in terms of the contest success function. While one player’s type is known to both...

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An Absurd Tax on our Fellow Citizens: The Ethics of Rent Seeking in the Market Failures (or Self-Regulation) Approach

Jaworski, Peter - In: Journal of Business Ethics 121 (2014) 3, pp. 467-476

Joseph Heath lumps in quotas and protectionist measures with cartelization, taking advantage of information asymmetries, seeking a monopoly position, and so on, as all instances of behavior that can lead to market failures in his market failures approach to business ethics. The problem is that...

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Contractual Flexibility, Rent Seeking, and Renegotiation Design: An Empirical Analysis of Information Technology Outsourcing Contracts

Susarla, Anjana - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 7, pp. 1388-1407

This paper examines renegotiation design in contracts for outsourced information technology (IT) services. Whereas prior literature in information systems has highlighted the likelihood of ex post rent seeking engendered by renegotiation, we build upon literature on incomplete contracts to posit...

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Elected vs appointed public law enforcers

LANGLAIS, Eric; Obidzinski, Marie - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2013

This paper revisits the issue of law enforcement and the design of monetary sanctions when the public law enforcer's incentives depart from those of a benevolent authority, which is the most frequent assumption made in the literature on crime deterrence. We rst consider the case of an elected...

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Government transparency and expenditure in the rent-seeking industry: The case of Japan for 1998–2004

Yamamura, Eiji; Kondoh, Haruo - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2012

losses from rent-seeking activity, which is consistent with public choice theory. …

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