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Rent seeking 4,093 Rent-Seeking 4,093 Theorie 1,841 Theory 1,841 Spieltheorie 762 Game theory 761 Wettbewerb 381 Competition 380 Korruption 358 Corruption 356 Interessenpolitik 345 Neue politische Ökonomie 345 Public choice 345 Lobbying 344 Economic rent 295 Ökonomische Rente 295 Auction theory 269 Auktionstheorie 269 Wirtschaftswachstum 223 Economic growth 221 Welt 216 World 216 USA 194 United States 191 Rent-seeking 184 Experiment 157 China 134 Estimation 131 Schätzung 131 Public goods 130 rent-seeking 130 Öffentliche Güter 130 Nichtkooperatives Spiel 128 Noncooperative game 127 Einkommensverteilung 119 Income distribution 119 Entwicklungsländer 114 Developing countries 109 rent seeking 109 Rent 103
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Article in journal 1,906 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 1,906 Graue Literatur 956 Non-commercial literature 956 Arbeitspapier 926 Working Paper 926 Aufsatz im Buch 263 Book section 263 Hochschulschrift 80 Thesis 62 Collection of articles of several authors 34 Sammelwerk 34 Aufsatzsammlung 24 Bibliografie enthalten 22 Bibliography included 22 Conference paper 16 Konferenzbeitrag 16 Konferenzschrift 15 Collection of articles written by one author 12 Sammlung 12 Systematic review 10 Übersichtsarbeit 10 Bibliografie 6 Reprint 6 Rezension 6 Case study 4 Conference proceedings 4 Fallstudie 4 Festschrift 3 Forschungsbericht 3 Amtsdruckschrift 2 Fallstudiensammlung 2 Government document 2 Literaturbericht 2 Mehrbändiges Werk 2 Multi-volume publication 2 Handbook 1 Handbuch 1 Lehrbuch 1 Mikroform 1
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English 3,911 German 141 French 14 Spanish 11 Polish 6 Russian 5 Italian 3 Czech 2 Norwegian 2 Dutch 1 Serbian 1 Swedish 1
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Epstein, Gil S. 78 Nitsan, Shemuʾel 46 Sheremeta, Roman M. 44 Gang, Ira N. 36 Konrad, Kai A. 31 Sela, Aner 31 Ewerhart, Christian 28 Tullock, Gordon 27 Chowdhury, Subhasish M. 26 Tollison, Robert D. 26 Kovenock, Daniel J. 25 Clark, Derek J. 24 Amegashie, J. Atsu 23 Hillman, Arye L. 22 Congleton, Roger D. 21 Mealem, Yosef 21 Morck, Randall 20 Lee, Sanghack 19 Yeung, Bernard 19 Bjorvatn, Kjetil 18 Parisi, Francesco 18 Acemoglu, Daron 17 Baik, Kyung Hwan 17 Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza 17 Leininger, Wolfgang 17 Philippopulos, Apostolēs 16 Sahm, Marco 16 Schoonbeek, Lambert 16 Verdier, Thierry 15 Corchón, Luis C. 14 Glazer, Amihai 14 Lu, Jingfeng 14 Mackenzie, Ian A. 14 Caballero, Ricardo J. 13 Long, Ngo Van 13 Anderson, Gary M. 12 Baye, Michael R. 12 Brady, Gordon L. 12 Dabla-Norris, Era 12 Münster, Johannes 12
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National Bureau of Economic Research 26 GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies 5 William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> 5 Rutgers University / Department of Economics 4 Edward Elgar Publishing 3 Nationaløkonomiske Instituttet <Århus> 3 Universitetet i Tromsø / Department of Economics 3 Universität Dortmund / Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät 3 European University Institute / Department of Economics 2 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 2 Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg 2 Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa 2 Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Wirtschaftssystemen 2 Universitetet i Oslo / Økonomisk institutt 2 University of California Davis / Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2 University of Nottingham / School of Economics 2 World Institute for Development Economics Research 2 Bonn Graduate School of Economics 1 Cato Institute 1 Center for International and Regional Studies 1 Centre de Recherche en Economie du Développement 1 Centre for Economic Policy Research 1 Centre for International Economic Studies 1 Centre of Policy Studies 1 Centrum für Angewandte Politikforschung <München> / Forschungsgruppe Europa 1 Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris 1 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre 1 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Institut für Weltwirtschaft 1 Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies 1 Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik 1 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 1 Economic Development Center 1 Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet <Stockholm> 1 Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia <Rio de Janeiro> 1 European Commission / Statistical Office of the European Union 1 European Public Choice Society 1 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1 Foreign Investment Advisory Service 1 Forschungsstelle Osteuropa 1
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Public choice 268 CESifo working papers 78 European journal of political economy 70 Economics letters 51 Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 44 Discussion paper series / IZA 43 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 CESifo Working Paper Series 28 Constitutional political economy 27 Games and economic behavior 27 NBER working paper series 26 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 26 Economics of governance 25 Working paper 23 Economics & politics 22 Journal of public economics 22 NBER Working Paper 22 Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 21 The Cato journal : an interdisciplinary journal of public policy analysis 21 Working paper series / University of Zurich, Department of Economics 20 Discussion paper 19 Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic Association International 19 European economic review : EER 19 International review of law and economics 19 Journal of development economics 19 IZA Discussion Paper 18 Policy research working paper : WPS 18 Social choice and welfare 18 Economic theory : official journal of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory 17 GIGA working papers 17 Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies 17 Southern economic journal 16 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 15 Discussion papers / CEPR 14 Discussion papers / Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 14 Journal of mathematical economics 14 The journal of private enterprise 14 Rent seeking in China 13 CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute 12 Defence and peace economics 12
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The political economy of military base redevelopment
Reilly, Chandler S.; Coyne, Christopher J. - In: Eastern economic journal : EEJ 51 (2025) 1, pp. 7-26
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Predicting the distribution of contest success under the illusion of proportionality
Hefti, Andreas; Shen, Peiyao - 2025
Understanding disparities in contest success is central to explaining how competition shapes the distribution of rewards, influence, or market shares. We introduce the Proportional Play Equilibrium (PPE), a boundedly rational alternative to Nash Equilibrium (NE) grounded in the Illusion of...
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Transparency and government reputation : an experiment on signaling
Otálvaro-Ramírez, Susana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2025
Transparency initiatives are well-known tools to foster trust and empower citizens. To explain why some governments introduce them but others do not, we model these initiatives as a signal that complements the information provided by visible government performance and conduct a randomized survey...
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Let's (not) escalate this! : leadership and communication in a group contest
Heine, Florian; Riedl, Arno - 2025
Economic and social situations where groups have to compete are ubiquitous. Such group contests create both a coordination problem within and between groups. Introducing leaders may help to mitigate these coordination problems. However, little is known about the effect of leadership in group...
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Oil rents shocks and corruption in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2025
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Law enforcement with unlawful investigations and enforcer's liability
Langlais, Eric; Yahagi, Ken - 2025
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Max-max group contests with incomplete information à la global games
Bosco, Davide; Gilli, Mario; Sorrentino, Andrea - 2025
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Rent seeking at the margin? : theory and evidence from UNESCO’s world heritage list
Dattilo, Martina; Padovano, Fabio; Rocaboy, Yvon - 2025
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Let's (not) escalate this! : leadership and communication in a group contest
Heine, Florian; Riedl, Arno - 2025
Economic and social situations where groups have to compete are ubiquitous. Such group contests create both a coordination problem within and between groups. Introducing leaders may help to mitigate these coordination problems. However, little is known about the effect of leadership in group...
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The aggregate costs of political connections
Gathen, Jonas - 2025
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Impact of social drinking culture on the cost of bank loans : rent-seeking or loan-contracting efficiency
Tan, Jianhua; Wang, Zhan; Chan, Kam C. - In: Economic modelling 141 (2024), pp. 1-17
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Government externalities
Trantidis, Aris - In: Public choice 201 (2024) 3/4, pp. 451-469
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On the relative sequencing of internal and external rent-seeking contests
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Gupta, Dhritiman - 2024
We consider rent-seeking contests between and within two equal-sized groups. Each group adopts one of three sequences: first internal then external contest, first external then internal contest, and simultaneous internal and external contests. Groups cannot unilaterally postpone a contest...
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Rent taxes on natural resources in Norway : a short overview
Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder - 2024
For a long time, Norway has had resource rent taxes on oil- and natural gas extraction as well as on hydropower generation. Recently, resource rent taxes have also been levied on aquaculture, and wind power generation. This paper, gives a short overview of the rent theory, the basis for rent...
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Corruption and political accountability under economic shocks : preliminary findings
Barinas-Forero, Andrés; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2024 - Preliminary draft
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Digital transformation driving green innovation : evidence from Chinese A-Share firms
Li, Hemei; Liu, Zhenya; Hachard, Virginie - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 95 (2024), pp. 1-17
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The importance of social status in a rent-seeking society
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2024
Status-seeking exists in all societies but different societies value status differently. How does the importance of social status affect the mode of status-seeking? I consider a game in which status can be achieved through productive effort that increases wealth or through a contest in which...
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Contests on networks
Matros, Alexander; Rietzke, David - In: Economic theory 78 (2024) 3, pp. 815-841
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Balance of power in a conflict model
Tsuchiya, Ryota - In: Economics of governance 25 (2024) 3, pp. 379-399
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Paying (and paving) my way : extra-class participation and rent extraction
Huynh, Quynh - In: Labour economics : an international journal 91 (2024), pp. 1-16
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Understanding the local government debt in China
Geng, Xin; Qian, Meijun - In: Pacific-Basin finance journal 86 (2024), pp. 1-22
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Bargaining and rent seeking : asymmetric equilibria with two investment levels
Imai, Haruo - In: Economics letters 240 (2024), pp. 1-4
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Max-min group contests continuous efforts and a private good prize
Gilli, Mario; Sorrentino, Andrea - 2024
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The cost of appropriation and firm boundaries
Mori, Yusuke - In: Economics letters 241 (2024), pp. 1-3
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Learning from overrated mission-oriented innovation policies : seven takeaways
Henrekson, Magnus; Sandström, Christian; Stenkula, Mikael - In: Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy : Questioning …, (pp. 235-255). 2024
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Workers or rentiers
Correa, Romar - In: PSL quarterly review 77 (2024) 308, pp. 105-119
We explore the shifting allegiances in the traditional conflict between capital and labor. This shift is created by finance: the distinction between financial and nonfinancial firms has become elusive. Our focus is on the worker who voluntarily or involuntarily transforms into a rentier. We...
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Global public good provision in emergency states : a model of (asymmetric) yardstick competition between rent-seeking governments
Di Liddo, Giuseppe; Vinella, Annalisa - In: Socio-economic planning sciences : the international … 93 (2024), pp. 1-10
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Herding, taxpayer's rent seeking and endemic corruption
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 217 (2024), pp. 533-546
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A fistful of dollars : rent seeking behaviour and local tax manipulation
Giommoni, Tommaso - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 220 (2024), pp. 453-469
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Player strength and effort in contests
Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2024
In competitive settings, disparities in player strength are common. It is intuitively unclear whether a stronger player would opt for larger or smaller effort compared to weaker players. Larger effort could leverage their strength, while lower effort might be justified by their higher...
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Rentiers and distributive conflict in Brazil : 200-2019
Marques, Pedro Romero; Rugitsky, Fernando - In: Cambridge journal of economics 48 (2024) 2, pp. 275-302
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Forward to the past : short-term effects of the rent freeze in Berlin
Hahn, Anja M.; Kholodilin, Konstantin; Waltl, Sofie; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 3, pp. 1901-1923
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Antiquity, capitalism & development : the finance-growth perspective
Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Zhu, Junbing - In: Emerging markets review 59 (2024), pp. 1-29
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Rent formation and distortions due to quotas in biological production processes
Oglend, Atle; Asche, Frank; Straume, Hans-Martin - In: Resource and energy economics 77 (2024), pp. 1-14
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Political economy of international sanctions
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2024
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Political economy of international sanctions
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2024
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The role of institutions in shaping the growth-aid relationship
Bethencourt, Carlos; Perera-Tallo, Fernando - In: Journal of macroeconomics 80 (2024), pp. 1-22
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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024
We model a rent-seeking contest among two 'identity ideologues', differentially located along a uni-dimensional identity continuum, and a 'mercenary', who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity-relevant good ('religion') and an identity-irrelevant good...
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On the uniqueness of the mixed equilibrium in the Tullock contest
Ewerhart, Christian - 2024
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Experimental research on contests
Chowdhury, Subhashish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - 2024 - This version: 03 January 2024
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Characterization of the set of equilibria in max-min group contests with continuous efforts and a private good prize
Gilli, Mario; Sorrentino, Andrea - 2024
We characterise the set of equilibria in a deterministic group contest with the weakest-link impact function, continuous efforts and a private good prize, complementing the results obtained by Chowdhury et al. (2016). We consider a two-stages two-groups model, where in the first stage the agents...
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Efficiency and equity : a general equilibrium analysis of rent-seeking
Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - In: Journal of public economic theory 26 (2024) 4, pp. 1-25
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Solving the n-player Tullock contest
Ewerhart, Christian - 2024
The n-player Tullock contest with complete information is known to admit explicit solutions in special cases, such as (i) homogeneous valuations, (ii) constant returns, and (iii) two contestants. But can that model be solved more generally? In this paper, we show that key characteristics of the...
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Tools of regime stability : the political economy of sovereign wealth funds in Gulf rentier states
Trudelle, Alexis Montambault - In: Review of international political economy 31 (2024) 5, pp. 1446-1471
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How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania's skills sector? : exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments
Andreoni, Antonio; Van Huellen, Sophie; Katera, Lucas; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 182 (2024), pp. 1-22
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Inside the West Wing : lobbying as a contest
Langtry, Alastair - In: Journal of public economics 231 (2024), pp. 1-8
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Automation and rent dissipation : implications for wages, inequality, and productivity
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2024
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Rent seeking and precautionary bidding in conservation auctions
Wichmann, Bruno - In: Canadian journal of agricultural economics : CJAE 72 (2024) 3, pp. 235-249
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Three-player contests with a potential inactive player : endogenous timing of effort exertion
Baik, Kyung Hwan; Lee, Jong Hwa - In: Economic inquiry 62 (2024) 3, pp. 1335-1352
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Tullock contest with reference-dependent preferences
Fallucchi, Francesco; Trevisan, Francesco - In: Economic inquiry 62 (2024) 4, pp. 1618-1628
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