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State fragility, rent seeking and lobbying: evidence from African data

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Simplice, Asongu - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 10, pp. 1016-1030

building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de facto power … holders is tested. Findings The resulting interesting finding is that political interference, rent seeking and lobbying … are two main policy implications. First, political interference, rent seeking and lobbying are likely to increase the …

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Endogenous Corruption in a Federation

Plekhanov, Alexander - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

Abstract The paper shows that corruption at the federal level may be contagious for regional governments suggesting that federal structure of the government may be one of the reasons for persistence of corruption. The analysis reveals that well-informed voters may rationally forego their chance...

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Lessons for Emerging European Constitutionalism from the United States Constitution: Trigger Rules

McGinnis, John O. - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 11 (2001) 1

This essay offers some lessons from the history of the United States Constitution for constitutions for emerging democracies in Eastern Europe. The United States Constitution declined in efficacy over time because special interests eroded its restraints on rent-seeking. This essay seeks to...

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Was Transition about Free-Market Economics?

Colombatto, Enrico - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 11 (2001) 1

Transition has not always been a success story. In some cases failure was due to the introduction of topdown legislature, which was not always compatible with the existing informal rules of the game. In other cases transition was just a euphemism for a fight for power with little substantial...

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Ethnic enterprise governance: a public choice analysis of Liverpool's Chinatown

Evans, Anthony J. - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 28-38

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use a case study of Liverpool, UK, to perform a public choice analysis of the governance of Chinatown. This case study is a theoretical application of clubs and interest group theory to ethnic economies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is...

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The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker

Thomas, Diana W.; Leeson, Peter T. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 84-95

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine how productive entrepreneurial activities, such as innovation, influence unproductive entrepreneurial activities, such as regulatory rent seeking. Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the argument the authors consider Bavaria's brewing industry...

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A (partial) review of entrepreneurship literature across disciplines

Campbell, Noel; Mitchell, David T. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 1 (2012) 2, pp. 183-199

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to stimulate researchers’ interest by acquainting them with some aspects of the entrepreneurship literature they may not have known. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a non‐meta‐analytic literature review of several literatures in...

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The substance of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship of substances

March, Raymond J.; Martin, Adam G.; Redford, Audrey - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 5 (2016) 2, pp. 201-220

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the distinctions and complementary of William Baumol and Israel Kirzner’s classifications of and insights into entrepreneurship, and thus providing a more complete taxonomy of the substance of entrepreneurial activity. This paper also...

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Mastery versus profit as motivation for the entrepreneur

Manish, G.P.; Sutter, Daniel - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 5 (2016) 1, pp. 95-112

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that entrepreneurs are motivated not only by the desire to maximize profits but also by the desire for mastery. It then attempts to analyze the implications of mastery seeking for the economics and politics of government privileges and favors for...

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Productive versus unproductive entrepreneurship

Gohmann, Stephan F.; Hobbs, Bradley K.; McCrickard, Myra J. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 5 (2016) 2, pp. 145-160

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the correlation between the degree of economic freedom in state institutions and industry employment and then determine how these correlations relate to economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – The authors find the correlation between...

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