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The rents of banking : a public choice approach to bank regulation
Buck, Florian Christopher - 2015
The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...
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The rents of banking : a public choice approach to bank regulation
Buck, Florian Christopher - 2015
dem Hintergrund der Public Choice-Theorie versucht die vorliegende Arbeit diesen Trend als Resultat politischer …
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Human capital and growth : the cost of rent seeking activities
Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A.; … - In: The determinants of economic growth, (pp. 209-229). 2000
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Deadweight costs and the size of government
Becker, Gary Stanley; Mulligan, Casey B. - 1998
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Deadweight costs and the size of government
Becker, Gary Stanley; Mulligan, Casey B. - In: The journal of law & economics 46 (2003) 2, pp. 293-340
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The Efficiency Cost of Protective Measures in Climate Policy
Boehringer, Christoph - 2016
Despite recent achievements towards a global climate agreement, climate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions remains quite heterogeneous across countries. Energy-intensive and trade-exposed (EITE) industries in industrialized countries are particularly concerned on stringent domestic...
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Bitcoin Mining : gesellschaftliche Kosten und Regulierungsbedarf
Thum, Marcel - In: Beiträge zu Wirtschaftspolitik und …, (pp. 221-230). 2018
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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor);  … - 2005
government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …
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Nature, power, and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and presents some new results. The principal reasons why resource-based production can inhibit economic growth over long periods are traced to the Dutch disease, neglect of education,...
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Political economics of external sovereign defaults
Achury, Carolina; Koulovatianos, Christos; Tsoukalas, John - 2015
We develop a dynamic recursive model where political and economic decisions interact, to study how excessive debt-GDP ratios affect political sustainability of prudent fiscal policies. Rent seeking groups make political decisions - to cooperate (or not) - on the allocation of fiscal budgets...
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