Operations, Information and Decisions Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
10-2005
Publication Source
Journal of Theoretical Politics
Volume
17
Issue
4
Start Page
403
Last Page
429
DOI
10.1177/0951629805056895
Abstract
Rent-seeking models have been used to predict and explain a wide variety of political decisions. This paper extends Tullock’s classic rent-seeking model to the case of a risky rent, where the winner of the rent-seeking contest does not receive the rent for sure, but only probabilistically. We derive the equilibrium and comparative static predictions from our extended model and present the results of an experiment with subjects from the US and Turkey to test it. Results are consistent with the comparative static predictions of the model, although we observe significantly more absolute levels of rent-seeking than the model predicts, consistent with previous experimental results. We conclude by discussing implications of our results for a variety of rent-seeking settings.
Keywords
experiment, inefficiency, political decision-making, rent-seeking
Recommended Citation
Onculer, A., & Croson, R. (2005). Rent-Seeking for a Risky Rent A Model and Experimental Investigation. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 17 (4), 403-429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0951629805056895
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Date Posted: 27 November 2017
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