... 0374-8Robert D. Tollison The economic theory of rent seeking, Public Choice 152, no.1-21-2 (May ... org/10.2139/ssrn.2387667Tommm Otthal The Dynamic Rent-Seeking Theory: A Response to Critics, SSRN Electronic Journal ( ... ssrn.1949073Yang-Ming Chang Strategic altruistic transfers and rent seeking within the family, Journal of Population Economics 22, ... Goff, Robert D. Tollison Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking, Public Choice 136, no.3-43-4 (Jun ... Transaction by Game Theory: on the Basis of Rent-Seeking Theory, (Aug 2007): 980–985.https://doi.org/ ...
Tópico(s): Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
1983 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Law and Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
... and, as with public choice, the theory of rent seeking can be interpreted as an appropriate extension. Yet, no one has really explored rent seeking (or revenue, premium, tariff or directly unproductive profit ... indicated that property rights assignments actually underlie the rent-seeking process, and others have also recognized this [4; ... activities with nonpecuniary goals clearly fit into the rent-seeking framework when viewed through the property rights paradigm. This contrasts strikingly with the perception of rent seeking held by some writers [9; 10; 11; 12; ...
Tópico(s): Economic theories and models
1984 - Wiley | Southern Economic Journal
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
... doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1930791Edmund H. Mantell Rent seeking and the value of time, Journal of Economics ... BF02761555Harry de Gorter, Gordon C. Rausser, Andrew Schmitz Rent Seeking and International Trade in Agriculture, (Jan 2002): 179– ... 1-4615-1543-2_9Robert D. Tollison The Rent-Seeking Insight, (Jan 2000): 13–28.https://doi.org/ ... 978-1-4615-4563-7_2Kyung Hwan Baik RENT-SEEKING FIRMS, CONSUMER GROUPS, AND THE SOCIAL COSTS OF ... 3Kiaran Honderich Producers and Parasites: The Uses of Rent Seeking, Review of Radical Political Economics 28, no.22 ( ...
Tópico(s): Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
1985 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Political Economy
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
It is now widely accepted that rent-seeking (Anne Krueger, 1974) or directly unproductive profit seeking (Jagdish Bhagwati, 1982) may cause inefficiencies in the context of public sector decisions. The ... no social benefit. Moreover, the social cost of rent seeking can exceed the value of the resources spent ... redistribution reduces the incentives for wealth creation. Treating rent-seeking activities as characteristic of public sector decision processes ... of decision processes (private or public) that permit rent seeking, and to incorporate these into a cost-benefit ...
Tópico(s): Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
1990 - American Economic Association | American Economic Review
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Emmanuel Ampofo‐Tuffuor, Charles Delorme, David R. Kamerschen,
... 537-559 The Nature, Significance, and Cost of Rent Seeking in Ghana Emmanuel Ampofo-Tuffuor, Emmanuel Ampofo-Tuffuor ... Web of Science®Google Scholar Buchanan, J.M.: ‘Rent-seeking under External Diseconomies’, in: J.M Buchanan, R. ... G. Tullock (eds.), Toward a Theory of the Rent-seeking Society, College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ... Jr.;, Kamerschen, D.R. and Mbaku, J.M.: ‘Rent Seeking in the Cameroon Economy’, The American Journal of ... Jr. and Snow, A.: ‘On the Limits of Rent Seeking Waste’, Public Choice, Vol. 67 (1990), pp. 129– ...
Tópico(s): Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
1991 - Wiley | Kyklos
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
... Bureaucracy, 119, 193. [56] C. Rowley, 'Introduction', The Rent Seeking Society in The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, vol. 5, xi. [57] Tullock, 'Rent Seeking', The Rent Seeking Society, 19. [58] Tullock, 'Rent Seeking', The Rent Seeking Society, 31. [59] Tullock, 'Rent Seeking', The Rent Seeking Society, 60. [60] Tullock, The Vote Motive, 199; ... Scholar], 'Competing for Aid', 41–62. [61] Tullock, 'Rent Seeking', 39. [62] Tullock, 'Rent Seeking', 22; see, in particular here, Tullock Tullock, G. ... the Wisdom of the Age', 80. [75] Tullock, 'Rent Seeking', 68. [76] On this see Tullock Tullock, G. ...
Tópico(s): Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
2008 - Routledge | Contemporary British History
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Giuseppe Dari‐Mattiacci, Éric Langlais, Bruno Lovat, Francesco Parisi,
This paper presents a general rent-seeking model in which participants decide on entry before choosing their levels of efforts. The conventional wisdom in the rent-seeking literature suggests that the rent dissipation increases with ... paper, we show that this result of the rent-seeking literature is far from general and applies only ... impact of competitors’ exit option, distinguishing between “redistributive rent-seeking” and “productive rent-seeking” situations. In redistributive rent-seeking, no social loss ...
Tópico(s): Taxation and Compliance Studies
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | Public Choice
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
... interest in preventing the socially inefficient activity of rent-seeking. Less technically, the government’s interest is in promoting national economic welfare. Rent-seeking occurs when resources are dedicated to capturing a ... often the key actors securing such benefits. The rent-seeking analysis focuses attention on the systemic societal costs ... lobbying jurisprudence. Part II proposes a new anti-rent-seeking rationale for lobbying regulation. It begins by describing ... federal level and the costs of lobbyist-driven rent-seeking on the national economy. Some of the new ...
Tópico(s): Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
2011 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... interest in preventing the socially inefficient activity of rent-seeking. Less technically, the government’s interest is in promoting national economic welfare. Rent-seeking occurs when resources are dedicated to capturing a ... often the key actors securing such benefits. The rent-seeking analysis focuses attention on the systemic societal costs ... lobbying jurisprudence. Part II proposes a new anti-rent-seeking rationale for lobbying regulation. It begins by describing ... federal level and the costs of lobbyist-driven rent-seeking on the national economy. Some of the new ...
Tópico(s): Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
2012 - Stanford Law School | Stanford Law Review
Baohua Liu, Yan Lin, Kam C. Chan, Hung‐Gay Fung,
... 2009 to 2014 to examine the impact of rent-seeking on a firm's earnings management, an important ... of quality in accounting information. We show that rent-seeking strongly promotes more earnings management, hiding firm-specific ... government initiates an anti-corruption campaign that depresses rent-seeking activities, the significant relation between rent-seeking and earnings management disappears, confirming the predictive link of rent-seeking and earnings management. Our study clearly identifies rent- ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Finance and Governance
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Business Research
Lu Liu, Qiuhong Zhao, Yanlin Bi,
... from a theoretical level. It is found that rent-seeking behavior between Local Regulatory Departments of Work Safety ... and cause accidents accordingly. Considering the existence of rent-seeking behavior, we construct a tripartite evolutionary game model ... in the CMSPI system and analyze impact of rent-seeking on it. We show that rent-seeking cost has threshold value. By raising the punishment ... third-party regulatory department independent of the system, rent-seeking cost can be higher than its threshold, thus ...
Tópico(s): Mining and Resource Management
2020 - Elsevier BV | Resources Policy
Gary M. Anderson, Charles K. Rowley, Robert D. Tollison,
... 13563467.2022.2109612Touria Jaaidane, Olivier Musy, Ronan Tallec Rent-seeking, reform, and conflict: French parliaments at the end ... 01021-0Sami Fethi, Hatice Imamoglu The impact of rent‐seeking on economic growth in the six geographic regions: ... 2069Celso J. Costa Junior, Alejandro C. Garcia-Cintado Rent-seeking in an emerging market: A DSGE approach, Economic ... org/10.2139/ssrn.3189516Nasir Iqbal, Vince Daly Rent seeking opportunities and economic growth in transitional economies, Economic ... econmod.2013.10.025Andrey Vladimirovich Latkov Trends of Rent-Seeking Theory, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2014).https://doi. ...
Tópico(s): Taxation and Compliance Studies
1988 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Legal Studies
Previous articleNext article No AccessMiscellanyThe Cost of Rent Seeking: Is GNP Negative?William R. DouganWilliam R. Dougan Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share ... kykl.12036Ignacio Del Rosal THE EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT OF RENT-SEEKING COSTS, Journal of Economic Surveys 25, no.22 ( ... Stephan, Heinrich W. Ursprung The Social Cost of Rent Seeking When Victories are Potentially Transient and Losses Final, ( ... Stephan, Heinrich W. Ursprung The Social Cost of Rent Seeking When Victories are Potentially Transient and Losses Final, ( ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
1991 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Political Economy
The paper develops a model of rent-seeking in a democratic political context where voting, as well as rent-seeking, matters. In this context, the paper demonstrates that voter ideology is a constraint on the rent-seeking game as well as a possible avenue of rent-seeking. In a setting where there are both rent-seeking and ideological interest groups, rent-seekers can free ... the efforts of ideologues, which tends to reduce rent-seeking effort. In a setting where complementary economic and ideological interest groups coordinate their efforts, both rent- seeking and ideological conflict tend to increase.
Tópico(s): Land Rights and Reforms
1991 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Public Economics
Víctor I. Espinosa, José Antonio Peña‐Ramos, Fátima Recuero López,
... the support policies for renewable energies can promote rent-seeking incentives in private firms. We develop a political economy of rent-seeking that considers the link between the regulatory decisions ... We argue that systematic public support schemes bring rent-seeking as a perception shared by entrepreneurs that influencing ... production and distribution of renewable energy. We find rent-seeking behavior in Spain’s renewable energy industry, and ... i) political regulations have induced market concentration and rent-seeking in renewable energy firms, (ii) these firms have ...
Tópico(s): Electric Power System Optimization
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Energies
Sihai Li, Huiying Wu, Xinfeng Jiang,
Abstract We examine whether engagement in rent-seeking improves firm value in China. Rent-seeking is defined as a firm's use of resources to establish a relationship with the ... an analytical framework to examine the relationship between rent-seeking and firm value. Using a sample of non- ... which largely explains the insignificant relationship found between rent-seeking and firm value. Our further analysis shows that rent-seeking behavior of firms reduces production efficiency, providing additional evidence to support our thesis that engagement in rent-seeking does not enhance firm value in the Chinese ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
2017 - Cambridge University Press | Business and Politics
César Calderón, Alberto Chong,
We provide evidence for Granger causality between rent‐seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, where both rent‐seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the past 80 yr but ethnolinguistic ... helps identify “pure” interactions and their link with rent‐seeking outcomes. The presence and duration of democracy appear to have been conducive to a decrease in rent seeking, although the reduction in rent seeking does not appear to have had a bearing ... While the duration of democratic regime may impact rent‐seeking behavior, rent seeking also displays a Granger causality ...
Tópico(s): Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
2007 - Wiley | Economic Inquiry
Das Streben nach staatlich gesicherten Privilegien (rent-seeking) und Handelspolitik: Ein Industrie-Ansatz. - Das Streben nach einer ökonomischen Rente in der speziellen Form von Einkünften infolge von Staatsinterventionen wird hier ... breiten öffentlichkeit deutlicher vor Augen geführt werden können. «Rent-seeking» et la politique commerciale: une approche d’industrie. - Le modèle de «rent-seeking» présenté dans cet article est consistant avec l’ ... article discute aussi la dimension des rendements de «rent-seeking» en relation aux frais de lobby, ensuite des ...
Tópico(s): Global trade and economics
1984 - Springer Science+Business Media | Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv
... rents in the economy is the analysis of rent-seeking behavior on the part of actors in the ... public choice school. The main thrust of neoclassical rent-seeking theory is that the government creates rents, economic ... The purpose of this article is to analyze rent seeking and rent-seeking theory from an institutional perspective. In the first ... of government and present the neoclassical theory of rent seeking. The next two sections of the article deal ... and the fundamental inconsistencies in the theory of rent seeking. In the fourth section, we examine constitutional economics ...
Tópico(s): Political Economy and Marxism
1991 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Economic Issues
Michele Boldrín, David K. Levine,
... the innovator remains a monopolist. For this reason, rent-seeking, both public and private, plays an important role ... analyzing the trade-off between private and public rent-seeking. While it is true in principle that public rent-seeking may be a substitute for private rent-seeking, it is not true that this results always either in less private rent-seeking or in a welfare improvement. When the public ... may experience the worst of public and private rent-seeking together.
Tópico(s): Private Equity and Venture Capital
2003 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Monetary Economics