Article: Copyrights, criminal sanctions and economic rents: applying the rent seeking model to the criminal law formulation process.

Article: Rent seeking.(analysis of rent)
IMF Staff Papers;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... income inequality, and widespread rent seeking (1) are common features of ... economies. One consequence of such rent seeking is that productive resources ... of resources in the economy. Rent-seeking activities, such as corruption ...

Article: Rent seeking behavior in transition countries: the ...
International Advances in Economic Research;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... insights offered in the literature of rent seeking are applied to the issues of transition. A mathematical model of a rent seeking economy is presented, analyzing ... the economy. Some examples of rent seeking behavior that severely hamper ...

Article: Optimal rent-seeking group.
American Economist;  September 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... authors have extended the theory of rent seeking in several directions. |For a survey ... on the extent of social wastes due to rent-seeking competition under a variety of assumptions ... share the prize (rent) and costs of rent seeking. For instance, as Appelbaum and Katz ...

Article: Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory ... ways a familiar one: if rents and rent-seeking are inefficient, how is it that ... despite pervasive rent-creation and rent-seeking? Two comprehensive theory chapters ...

Article: RENT SEEKING AND DEMOCRACY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR ...
Economic Inquiry;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... evidence for Granger causality between rent-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have ... interactions and their link with rent-seeking outcomes. The presence and duration ...

Article: A rent-seeking experiment for the classroom.
The Journal of Economic Education;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... retention of abstract economic ideas such as rent seeking. Instructors can reinforce the concept of rent seeking with a classroom game, particularly ... hand the potential inefficiencies of rent seeking. The authors suggest extensions of ...

Article: Incorporating policymaker costs and political competition into ...
Southern Economic Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... among rent seekers into the standard rent-seeking game. By incorporating these aspects ... first aspect captures the fact that in rent-seeking contests there is a positive probability ... We find that lobbying expenditures, rent-seeking profits, and rent dissipation depend ...