40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1

40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1
Author: Roger D. Congleton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540791812

The last survey of the rent-seeking literature took place more than a decade ago. Since that time a great deal of new research has been published in a wide variety of journals, covering a wide variety of topics. The scope of that research is such that very few researchers will be familiar with more than a small part of contemporary research, and very few libraries will be able to provide access to the full breadth of that research. This two-volume collection provides an extensive overview of 40 years of rent-seeking research. The volumes include the foundational papers, many of which have not been in print for two decades. They include recent game-theoretic analyses of rent-seeking contests and also appHcations of the rent-seeking concepts and methodology to economic regulation, international trade policy, economic history, poUtical com petition, and other social phenomena. The new collection is more than twice as large as any previous collection and both updates and extends the earlier surveys. Volume I contains previously published research on the theory of rent-seeking contests, which is an important strand of contemporary game theory. Volume II contains previously pubHshed research that uses the theory of rent-seeking to an alyze a broad range of public policy and social science topics. The editors spent more than a year assembling possible papers and, although the selections fill two large volumes, many more papers could have been included.

Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking

Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking
Author: R. D. Congleton
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1782544941

The quest for benefit from existing wealth or by seeking privileged benefit through influence over policy is known as rent seeking. Much rent seeking activity involves government and political decisions and is therefore in the domain of political econo

40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2

40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2
Author: Roger D. Congleton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540791850

The last survey of the rent-seeking literature took place more than a decade ago. Since that time a great deal of new research has been published in a wide variety of journals, covering a wide variety of topics. The scope of that research is such that very few researchers will be familiar with more than a small part of contemporary research, and very few libraries will be able to provide access to the full breadth of that research. This two-volume collection provides an extensive overview of 40 years of rent-seeking research. The volumes include the foundational papers, many of which have not been in print for two decades. They include recent game-theoretic analyses of rent-seeking contests and also appUcations of the rent-seeking concepts and methodology to economic regulation, international trade policy, economic history, poUtical com petition, and other social phenomena. The new collection is more than twice as large as any previous collection and both updates and extends the earUer surveys. Volume I contains previously pubhshed research on the theory of rent-seeking contests, which is an important strand of contemporary game theory. Volume II contains previously published research that uses the theory of rent-seeking to an alyze a broad range of public policy and social science topics. The editors spent more than a year assembling possible papers and, although the selections fill two large volumes, many more papers could have been included.

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics
Author: Roger D. Blair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199859191

The Handbook examines the most important issues that arise in antitrust economics. Leading scholars in the field provide detailed critical analysis of developments across a number of different antitrust topics along with a detailed review of the literature. The Handbook is invaluable as a research and teaching tool.

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice n. 1/2009

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice n. 1/2009
Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: Gangemi Editore spa
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2011-11-10T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8849270437

Contents Louis M. Imbeau Testing the 'Veil of Ignorance'Hypothesis in Constitutional Choice: A "Walk-Talk" Approach Geneviève Tellier Explaining Growth of Public Revenue: An Empirical Investigation of Canadian Provinces Rachel L. Mathers The Spillover Benefits of AIDS Prevention Agnieszka Bielinska-Kwapisz What Determines Excise Tax Rates? Reviews

40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1

40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1
Author: Roger D. Congleton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2009-08-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783540871965

The last survey of the rent-seeking literature took place more than a decade ago. Since that time a great deal of new research has been published in a wide variety of journals, covering a wide variety of topics. The scope of that research is such that very few researchers will be familiar with more than a small part of contemporary research, and very few libraries will be able to provide access to the full breadth of that research. This two-volume collection provides an extensive overview of 40 years of rent-seeking research. The volumes include the foundational papers, many of which have not been in print for two decades. They include recent game-theoretic analyses of rent-seeking contests and also appHcations of the rent-seeking concepts and methodology to economic regulation, international trade policy, economic history, poUtical com petition, and other social phenomena. The new collection is more than twice as large as any previous collection and both updates and extends the earlier surveys. Volume I contains previously published research on the theory of rent-seeking contests, which is an important strand of contemporary game theory. Volume II contains previously pubHshed research that uses the theory of rent-seeking to an alyze a broad range of public policy and social science topics. The editors spent more than a year assembling possible papers and, although the selections fill two large volumes, many more papers could have been included.

Contest Theory

Contest Theory
Author: Milan Vojnović
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1316472906

Contests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781849807760

This path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth, knowledge production and spillovers, technology transfer, the organization of the firm, industrial policy, financing, small firms and start-ups, and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur. There is much in this Handbook that will prove to be informative and stimulating, especially for academics and post-graduate students in economics and management. Those starting a PhD in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.

Power, Property Rights, and Economic Development

Power, Property Rights, and Economic Development
Author: Mohammad Dulal Miah
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2018-11-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9811327637

This book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state. It does so by taking an institutional political perspective to analyse the structures of property rights, with a focus on a series of case studies from Bangladesh. In doing so, the book highlights the importance of property rights for economic growth, why developing countries often fail to design property rights conducive for economic development, and the strategies required for designing an efficient structure of rights. Since property rights falls within the domain of Law and Economics, the book ventures to explain legal issues from an economic perspective, resulting in empirical analysis that comprises both legal and non-legal cases.

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice
Author: Roger D. Congleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 985
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190469730

"This two-volume collection provides a comprehensive overview of the past seventy years of public choice research, written by experts in the fields surveyed. The individual chapters are more than simple surveys, but provide readers with both a sense of the progress made and puzzles that remain. Most are written with upper level undergraduate and graduate students in economics and political science in mind, but many are completely accessible to non-expert readers who are interested in Public Choice research. The two-volume set will be of broad interest to social scientists, policy analysts, and historians"--