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The German-Jewish economic elite (1900 to 1930)

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Rent-seeking in elite networks

Haselmann, Rainer; Schoenherr, David; Vig, Vikrant - 2016

We employ a unique dataset on members of an elite service club in Germany to investigate how elite networks affect the … findings, thus, resonate with existing theories of elite networks as rent extractive coalitions that stie economic prosperity. …

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Rent-Seeking in elite networks

Haselmann, Rainer; Schoenherr, David; Vig, Vikrant - 2017

We employ a unique dataset on members of an elite service club in Germany to investigate how social connections in … elite networks affect the allocation of resources. Specifically, we investigate credit allocation decisions of banks to … with existing theories of elite networks as rent extractive coalitions that stifle economic prosperity. …

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