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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Rent-seeking behavior"”.
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Doctorate unemployment as rent-seeking behavior
… probably vary across disciplines). The theory of rent-seeking unemployment is then presented. When the academic wage exceeds the nonacademic wage, those gaining faculty positions receive rents; so some individual will refuse nonacademic jobs (accept unemployment) and search for rent-yielding …
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Do executives get more pay prior to deteriorations of firm performance?
… active shareholders effectively mitigates such behavior. This finding supports the managerial rent-extraction, rather than efficient contracting, explanation for the negative association between current pay and future performance. Consequently, such rent-seeking behavior is followed by even …
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Essays on Conservation Auctions and Uncertainty in Preferences
… agency funding the conservation program. These rents limit the amount of land which can be conserved, which decreases total surplus for society. The new auction mechanism, the Provision Point Reverse Auction, was designed to mitigate this rent-seeking behavior. This paper presents both …
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ESSAYS ON ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
… also capture the passive (shirking) or active (rent-seeking) corruption of officers. Accounting for the spatial and temporal variations in the operation of the cameras, we find that the presence of a functioning camera results in an increase in on-the-ground tickets. Although we do not rule out …
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Essays in financial economics
… cash flow shocks, they do not engage in similar behavior. Moreover, farmers increase their purchases of vacant (undeveloped) land. Average output, productivity, and profits all increase following these positive cash flow shocks, and farmland prices rise significantly. These effects are broadly …
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Dealing with plenty: Brazil in the era of surplus oil
… literature. I show that while there is no inherent contradiction between resource abundance and development, there are indeed economic and political challenges. Economically, there is a need to avoid the loss of competitiveness in the non-resource sector of the economy, a phenomenon named Dutch …
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Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Policy
… Chapter 1, I focus on the strategic behavior of generators participating in U.S. wholesale electricity auctions. Specifically, I examine one particular market clearing mechanism, the Uniform Price Auction (UPA), which has seen near ubiquitous adoption as the price setting rule for …