Rent-seeking for pure public goods: Wealth and group's size heterogeneity

In this paper, we study how between-group wealth and size heterogeneity affect aggregate rent-seeking efforts as well as success probabilities when two groups compete for the allocation of a pure public good. Unlike with previous analyses on between-group asymmetries, we measure the utility cost of...

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Autores:
Nupia, Oskar
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2011
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/41008
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/41008
Palabra clave:
Rent-seeking
Public goods
Group size
Wealth inequality
Group asymmetries
H41, D70, D72, D74, D31
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/