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Actor's perspectives and functions in the transition towards a bioeconomy
Jürges, Nataly - 2016
The concept of bioeconomy has increasingly gained importance. The transition towards a bioeconomy is a new challenge … for the sustainable use of soils. In the development of transition strategies, the perspectives of actors need to be … functions are ful-filled by actors in the transition towards a bioeconomy. Actors relevant for soil policy have different …
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The effects of rent seeking over tradable pollution permits
Hanley, Nick; Mackenzie, Ian A. - 2009
The establishment of a tradable permit market requires the regulator to select a level of aggregate emissions and then distribute the associated permits (rent) to specific groups. In most circumstances, these decisions are often politically contentious and frequently influenced by rent seeking...
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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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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Selecting less corruptible bureaucrats
Hu, Audrey Xianhua; Zou, Liang - 2007
A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference over job benefits. Through a dynamic model of rent-seeking behavior, this paper examines how endogenously determined corruptibility changes with monitoring intensity, salary...
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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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The democratization of rent seeking in Greece
Moutos, Thomas; Pechlibanos, Lampros - 2013
We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried, via strategic positioning and rent-seeking activities, to influence economic policy outcomes during the postwar decades. We split the postwar decades in three periods: the...
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One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy : a curse or a blessing?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2013
This paper examines the impact of oil revenues on the Iranian economy over the past hundred years, spanning the period 1908-2010. It is shown that although oil has been produced in Iran over a very long period, its importance in the Iranian economy was relatively small up until the early 1960s....
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Rent seeking and organizational structure
Wärneryd, Karl - 2014
A hierarchically structured rent-seeking contest may be associated with lower equilibrium expenditure than a corresponding flat contest. In this chapter we discuss how this fact may be used to explain the structure of organizations such as firms, including why firms commonly have outside owners.
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Haggling for rents, relational contracts, and the theory of the firm
Gürtler, Oliver - 2006
In this paper, a formal rent-seeking theory of the firm is developed. The main idea is that integration (compared to non-integration) facilitates rent-seeking for the integrating party, but makes it harder for the integrated one. In a one-period model, this implies that the rent-seeking contest...
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