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Political corruption and minority capture

Giannoccolo, Pierpaolo; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014

This analysis investigates a political corruption model that builds on previous literature on corruption in hierarchies …. Our study enriches the literature on political corruption emphasizing the contrasting role of the minorities having a … involved into the illicit activity and, eventually, spread the corruption disease. …

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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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Political Agency Model of Persistent Electoral Success with Endogenous Rents

Vukovic, Vuk - 2012

The paper presents a political agency model that observes how budgetary decisions on public good production affect the prospects of holding office for an incumbent political party. A simple budgetary function is broadened to include other expenditures such as public sector wages and social...

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Contests with multi-tasking

Clark, Derek J.; Konrad, Kai A. - 2006

The standard contest model in which participants compete in a single dimension is well understood and documented. Multi-dimension extensions are possible but are liable to increase the complexity of the contest structure, mitigating one of its main advantages: simplicity. In this paper we...

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Contractual incentive provision and commitment in rent-seeking contests

Gürtler, Oliver - 2006

In this paper, we consider a symmetric rent-seeking contest, where employees lobby for a governmental contract on behalf of firms. The only verifiable information is which firm is assigned the contract. We derive the optimal wage contracts of the employees and analyze, whether commitment by...

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Short-term or long-term contracts? : a rent-seeking perspective

Gürtler, Oliver - 2007

In this paper, firms engage in rent seeking in order to be assigned a governmental contract. We analyze how a change in the contract length affects the firms' rent-seeking behavior. A longer contract leads to more rent seeking at a contract assignment stage, as the firms value the contract...

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Upon Further Review : Will The NFL's Trademark Licensing Practices Survive Full Antitrust Scrutiny? The Remand of American Needle v. National Football League

Edelman, Marc - 2012

On May 24, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case American Needle v. Nat'l Football League that the National Football League's trademark licensing practices are subject to review under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. This ruling reversed an earlier decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for...

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Introduction : Insider Trading

Wang, William K. S. - 2014

This paper is the introductory chapter to Insider Trading (Oxford University Press 3d ed. 2010). This treatise analyzes the application of various laws to stock market insider trading and tipping. Among the federal laws are Exchange Act section 10(b), SEC Rule 10b-5, mail/wire fraud, SEC Rule...

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The Trouble with Cases

Zeckhauser, Richard; Schauer, Frederick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks whether policy-making or regulation by litigation is more or less socially...

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Gli Effetti Economici Della Liberalizzazione Della Cannabis in Italia (The Economic Effects of the Cannabis' Liberalization in Italy)

Esposito, Marcello - 2016

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro si valuta la dimensione del mercato illegale della cannabis in Italia e le entrate fiscali potenziali in caso di liberalizzazione. Rispetto a precedenti studi, si considera la elasticità al prezzo della domanda di cannabis e la competizione della criminalità...

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