This paper provides a more general model of the determination of rent-seeking costs by combining the following features: endogenous rent determination, asymmetric effectiveness of contending agents in their lobbying efforts, and multiple periods. In doing so, the paper generalizes some aspects...

In this paper we examine inequality of process and inequality of outcomes in interest group politics. The model has interest groups that compete for rents in a non-cooperative game. It allows for a self-interested rent-setting political decision-maker, and democratic or popular pressure as a...

The electronic structure and optical spectrum of monolayer MoS<Subscript>2</Subscript> are calculated using both the modified Becke-Johnson (mBJ) approximation and Bethe-Salpeter equation. Bulk MoS<Subscript>2</Subscript> is an indirect band gap semiconductor, but thinned to a monolayer it converts to a direct band gap semiconductor with...</subscript></subscript>

The aim of this note is to study the properties of some nonstationary autoregressive-moving average (ARMA) processes that are considered important in real world situations. In particular, the covariance structure and linear predictors are obtained.

Climate change is projected to intensify drought and heat stress in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) crop in rainfed regions. This will require developing high yielding groundnut cultivars that are both drought and heat tolerant. The crop growth simulation model for groundnut (CROPGRO-Groundnut...