The influence of rent allocation on rent-seeking waste under the between-group rent-seeking contest model

• Main Authors: Chen, Po-Han, 陳博瀚
• Other Authors: Ueng, Zen-Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97818701017097280835

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 財政學系 === 103 === While some scholars have engaged in group (collective) rent-seeking analysis or multiple-prize contests analysis, previous papers never discuss the effect of rent allocation on rent-seeking waste under group rent-seeking contest structure. This paper plans to extend the model of between-group rent-seeking contest in Katz and Tokatlidu (1996). We take into consideration the different possibility of rent allocation between winning and defeating groups, and conduct the between-group rent-seeking analysis. Using our model, we focus our discussion on the influence of governmental rent allocation on group and social rent-seeking waste. This paper finds that the influence of governmental rent allocation on social rent-seeking waste will depend on the relative size of rent-seeking groups.