investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when con …- sumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …

According to the previous literature on hiring, ?rms face a trade-off when deciding on external recruiting: From an … incentive perspective, external recruiting is harmful since admission of external candidates reduces internal workers’ career … same product market, weaker ?rms use external recruiting and their wage policy to offset their competitive disadvantage. …