Rent Seeking /

This paper examines the relationship between rent seeking and economic performance when governments cannot enforce property rights. With imperfect credit markets and a fixed cost of rent seeking, only wealthy agents choose to engage in it, since it enables them to protect their wealth from expropria...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chakraborty, Shankha
Other Authors: Dabla-Norris, Era
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/043
Online Access:Full text available on IMF