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Group contest success functions

Münster, Johannes - 2008

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Group contest cussess functions

Münster, Johannes - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 41 (2009) 2, pp. 345-357

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Rent dissipation in simple Tullock contests

Dickson, Alex; Mackenzie, Ian A.; Sekeris, Petros - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-11

We investigate observed rent dissipation-the ratio of the total costs of rent seeking to the monetary value of the rent-in winner-take-all and share contests, where preferences are more general than usually assumed in the literature. With concave valuation of the rent, we find that contests can...

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Seeking Lobbying Rents

Besharov, Gregory - 2003

Combining rent-seeking and menu auction models allows the study of efficiency in a political economy where lobbying … creates rents that politicians expend resources to obtain. Policy choices, lobbying, and rent-seeking are determined …

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Political Capital

Gratton, Gabriele - 2019

An organization must make a binary choice in each of two periods. The optimal choice depends on an unknown state of nature. The leader of the organization has a stock of political capital and observes a private signal of the state. The leader faces an inter-temporal choice problem. She may...

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Lobbying as a Source of Rent Seeking : Clarification of the Relationship Between Corporate Lobbying and Firm Tax Benefits

Carter, Seth - 2021

This paper measures and analyzes explicit returns to United States firms through lobbying efforts and motivated … dependent variables for firms upon increase in annual lobbying expenditures, particularly when such firms are more profitable …. New contributions to the empirical investigation of lobbying include the use of previously unexplored and updated …

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Can Lower Tax Rates Be Bought? Business Rent-Seeking and Tax Competition Among U.S. States

Chirinko, Robert S. - 2010

allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …

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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...

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Can lower tax rates be bought? : business rent-seeking and tax competition among US States

Chirinko, Robert S.; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2010

allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …

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Policy persistence and rent extraction

Friedrich, Silke - 2013

The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...

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