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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"rent-seeking"”.
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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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Alocação intertemporal de rendas de recursos naturais exauríveis para economias em desenvolvimento
… considerando a presença do comportamento rent seeking. A regra padrão de alocação intertemporal de rendas de recursos naturais apregoa que para que as gerações futuras usufruam das rendas oriundas da exploração de recursos naturais exauríveis é necessário que essas rendas sejam aplicadas …
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The impact of competition vs cooperation between subsidiaries within a multinational corporation
… to determine the impact of headquarter control, rent- seeking behaviour, inter-subsidiary cooperation and competition on multination corporation (MNC) business performance. The research presents a framework for MNCs to structure its headquarter-subsidiary and subsidiary-subsidiary relationships …
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Prometheus unbound : towards the more precise proscription of the socially undesirable market conduct associated with dominance
… all firms to pursue either competitive or rent seeking strategies to secure the supra-normal profits attendant to a dominant position. Competitive strategies are socially desirable as they seek to meet (or influence) consumer needs and thereby promote total welfare. Rent seeking strategies …
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The political economy of government interventions in financial crises
… which bank recapitalizations are carried out by rent-seeking policymakers. These policymakers face a trade-off between using public funds for needed recapitalizations and diverting them towards socially inefficient rents. In equilibrium, a banking union increases recapitalizations, but it can …
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Do executives get more pay prior to deteriorations of firm performance?
… 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 poorer long-term operating and stock performance in …
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DOES DEMOCRATIZATION AFFECT GROWTH ACROSS TIME OR SPACE?
… corruption and legal lobbying, both forms of rent seeking, as imperfect substitutes. Suppose lobbying is easier to do in democracies. Then, lowering corruption in authoritarian regimes could have greater growth benefits because of the lower substitutability between corruption and lobbying in …
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Mismatched motives: the economic consequences of distorted incentives in the public sector
… is a collection of four articles focused on the seeking of rents, which are rewards and prizes not earned or not consistent with competitive market returns. Each article explores a different aspect of the topic, focusing on the consequences, determinants or measurement of rent-seeking. The …
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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 economic design and coalition formation
… Complementarities and peer effects are inherent in many such matching situations. The chapter provides the first sufficient condition for stability that may be used to study matching with complementarities and peer effects. The condition offered is shown to be also necessary for stability in …
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The political economy of oil in Nigeria: How oil's impact on rent distribution has contributed to Nigeria's sub-optimal economic performance
… two of the most prominent of which are rent seeking, and domestic conflict and political instability. Therefore, this paper seeks to identify some the drivers of the curse in Nigeria by particularly assessing the influence that rent seeking and domestic conflict and political instability …
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Marange diamonds autopsy: investigating the Anjin deal between Chinese capital and the political military elite of Zimbabwe, plus the distribution of rents
… elite in Zimbabwe, and how are the rents distributed? This paper argues that the Anjin deal is a high barrier arrangement that limits rents from flowing to local communities and national development. Access to this deal is only available to those with political connections and the …
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Essays on political institutions and macroeconomics
… the equilibrium path so as to optimally limit rent-seeking by the ruler. The presence of political economy distortions causes the debt market which is complete to behave as if it were incomplete. In contrast to an incomplete market economy, taxes are positive in the long run. A numerical …
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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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Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
… activities or toward zero- or negative-sum rent-seeking, using cross-section data on informal, religious institutions. Chapter 5 summarizes the conclusions of the aforementioned chapters and discusses some possibilities for further investigation.
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Competition policy and resource utilization: challenging implications for economic development in Nigeria
… problems, include the issue of ‘resource curse’, rent seeking, corruption, abusive business practices and a few others. Their examination is in the thesis aligned with the scrutiny of the characteristics of developing countries in contrast to developed countries; again, the economic circumstances …
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How stakeholder roles, power, and negotiation impact natural resource policy: a political economy view
… process and to predict the potential success of rent-seeking activity based on stakeholder preferences and level of influence. Concepts from decision analysis, institutional analysis, and public choice economics were used in designing this interdisciplinary framework. The framework was then …
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Economic incentives for the sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests
… progress to control illegal logging and the rent-seeking powers of vested interest groups, global governance regulations which create markets for environmental services, secure property rights for resident stakeholders and extra-sectoral policies that moderate land use opportunity costs. The …
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