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The Welfare Costs of Rent-Seeking: A Methodologically Individualist & Subjectivist Revision
Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Gordon Tullock is recognized for being the first to recognize the true costs of rent-seeking as including not only the Harberger triangle but also the Tullock rectangle. This rectangle does not constitute merely a lossless transfer of wealth, but it causes a misallocation of resources as...
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Tranziţia şi grupurile de interese
Silviu, Cerna - In: Revista OEconomica (2011) 02
Romania has progressed, to a certain extent, in the last ten years, on the road from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economic system. However, after joining the EU, the transformation of the Romanian economy has almost entirely ceased. This paper examines some causes of stagnation...
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Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry
Duso, Tomaso; Jung, Astrid - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 12 (2012) 2, pp. 177-201
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The Dynamics and Status of India’s Economic Reforms
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper considers the status of economic reform in India, to understand which further reforms might be desirable … undertaken, the paper attempts to understand the political economy of the process of economic reform in India, and how that … process plays out with respect to different sectors of the economy, or different areas of potential economic reform. The …
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Interest Groups: An Introduction
Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
This paper reviews public choice theories of interest groups.
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The Political Economy of Climate Change Policy in the EU: Auction and Grandfathering
Brandt, Urs Steiner; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2003
Based on the political support function model by Hillman (1982), we consider the choice of policy instruments in environmental regulation. More specifically, we extend the Hillman model so that it can incorporate the connection between the relative strength of lobby groups, the chosen level of...
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Ratcheting in Renewable Resources Contracting
Brandt, Urs Steiner; Jensen, Frank; Hansen, Lars Gårn; … - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2004
Real life implies that public procurement contracting of renewable resources results in repeated interaction between a principal and the agents. The present paper analyses ratchet effects in contracting of renewable resources and how the presence of a resource constraint alters the...
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Globalization and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Sundaram, Jomo Kwame; Schwank, Oliver; Arnim, Rudiger von - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2011
This paper critically reviews the impact of globalization on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1980s. The large gains expected from opening up to international economic forces have, to date, been limited, and there have been significant adverse consequences. Foreign direct investment in...
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What are the Preconditions for Turnarounds in Failing States?
Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 25 (2008) 4, pp. 332-348
explanatory variables of resource rents, education, and aid, distinguishing between finance and technical assistance. Overall, we … intervention can radically shorten state failure, whereas additional finance, whether from aid or resource rents, has the opposite …
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Exit Polls: Refugee Assessments of North Korea's Transition
Noland, Marcus; Chang, Yoonok; Haggard, Stephan - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2008
negative perceptions of economic conditions and reform efforts. Other demographic markers such as gender or provincial origin … the respondents were unaware of the humanitarian aid program and the ones who knew of it almost universally did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760878