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...
- Autores:
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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/