Rent-seeking is broadly defined as firms that manipulate public policy or certain economic conditions to gain benefits or favor (Buchanan et al., 1980, Jang et al., 2017). In the process of bank credit, rent-seeking refers to firms strategically offering informal pay or bribe to bank officia...
Rent-seeking is defined as a firm's use of resources to establish a relationship with the government to obtain government-controlled resources. We incorporate political rents and associated costs into an analytical framework to examine the relationship between rent-seeking and firm value. Using a ...
rent-seeking by industry sectors as well as by specific private enterprises, for financial gains of the sector or of the enterprise, sometimes at the expense of what might be construed as the “general good” of society at large, through what is politely known as “lobbying” in Washington ...
Legal expenditures at a civil trial constitute an interesting type of rent-seeking contest. In civil litigation there is a natural interaction between the objective merits of the case and the outcome of the contest. Institutions such as fee shifting do not generally have a counterpart in other re...
Rent-seeking as Process (2000), `Rent-seeking as Process' in Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.Khan, M. 2000. "Rent-seeking as Process." In Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic ... M Khan - 《Pract Otol》 被引...
Rent-Seeking Behavior as a Determinant of Various Forms of Destructive Entrepreneurshipdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3192129destructive entrepreneurshipinstitutional economicssocio-economic developmentbusiness ethicsnet social benefitsdeviant behaviorTaking into account the fact that in general entrepreneurship is perceived as a...
Higher international standards or rent-seeking race to the bottom?: the impacts of forest product trade liberalisation on forest governance The objective of this study is to assess the impacts of forest trade policies, especially trade liberalisation, on forest governance. This was based on a l.....
This paper presents a rent-seeking contest model with third-party intervention to shed light on the "paradox of revolution." In this open-ended model, aids from dissent elites, either in the form of financial subsidy or non-financial support, help the repressed public toYM Chang...
Mercantilism as a rent-seeking society : economic regulation in historical perspective / by Robert B. Ekelund and Robert D. Tollison Ekelund,B Robert 被引量: 136发表: 1981年 Economic regulation in mercantile England: Heckscher revisited The gradual evolution to free enterprise in England, which ...
Not generally. The use of the word “rent” can create some confusion here. The term “rent” in rent seeking is based on the economic definition of “rent,” which is defined as economic wealth obtained through shrewd or potentially manipulative use of resources. That said, it’s possible ...