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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Autor principal: Chakraborty, Shankha
Outros Autores: Dabla-Norris, Era
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/043
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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