Rent intensity and economic mediocrity

Using the share society as a metaphor for the economic system, we construct a microfoundation for stylized observations about rent-seeking and economic performance. We introduce the concept of rent intensity and show that at symmetric Cournot-Nash equilibrium it falls as value-adding productivity ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Philippine Review of Business and Economics Vol. XXXI, No. 2 (December 1994), p. 73-85.
Main Author: Fabella, Raul V. (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: 1994.
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