Sökning: "rent-seeking"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade ordet rent-seeking.

  1. 1. Control and Rent-Seeking: The Role of the State in the Thai Cassava Industry

    Författare :Somboon Siriprachai; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; Cassava; The Thai State; Transaction Costs; Rent-Seeking; New Institutional Economics; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Sammanfattning : What we can conclude from this study is that the state and the market are not perfect substitutes in allocating resources and sustaining economic development separately. The case of the Thai cassava industry seems to suggest that the Thai state is not benevolent, but predatory in nature. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Corruption, rent seeking and efficient governance

    Författare :Mikael Priks; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Politisk korruption; ekonomiska aspekter; Skattepolitik; Löneskillnader;

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  4. 3. Political Economics of Special Interests and Gender

    Författare :Audinga Baltrunaite; David Strömberg; Torsten Persson; Jordi Blanes i Vidal; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political finance; public procurement; contributing firms; rent-seeking; gender quotas; municipal elections; difference-in-differences; regression discontinuity design; average years of education; age; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Political Finance Reform and Public Procurement:  Evidence from Lithuania. Can political donations buy influence? This paper studies whether firms trade political contributions for public procurement contracts. To answer this question, I focus on the Lithuanian political economy. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Essays in Institutional and Development Economics

    Författare :Heather Congdon Fors; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutions; property rights; resource rents; rent seeking; child labor;

    Sammanfattning : Paper 1: "Congo: The Prize of Predation" Abstract: The article analyzes the war against Mobutu (1996-97) and the more recent war (1998- ) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with particular attention to greed and grievance as motivating factors in these two wars. Whereas the authors' usage of the term "greed" simply reflects the desire to gain control of natural resource rents, they model "grievance" as deliberate institutional differences, implemented by the ruler, between the formal and informal sectors. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on Social Conflict and Reform

    Författare :Anders Bornefalk; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : "Essays on Social Conflict and Reform" consists of four essays that study the political economy of policy reform. Social Conflict with Passive Groups examines conflicts over the distribution of income where groups that engage in appropriative activities as well as groups that are passive in this respect participate. LÄS MER