Endogenous Public Policy and Contests

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Epstein, Gil S. (Συγγραφέας), Nitzan, Shmuel (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Θέματα: Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.

This book studies endogenous policy determination focusing on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in the determination of public policy. Applying strategic contest theory as the basic methodology, it clarifies the fundamental parameters that determine the behavior of the governmen...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Basic Contest
• The Policy Contest
• Contest Rationalization ? Microfoundations
• The Extended Contest: With Government
• Endogenous Public Policy
• Culture, Politicization and Relative Rent Dissipation
• Lobbying and Compromise
• The Policy Effect
• Effort and Performance
• Prizes (Size and Distribution) and Efforts
• Asymmetry and Corrective Public Policy
• The Extended Contest: Without Government
• The Social Cost of Rent Seeking when Consumer Opposition Influences Monopoly Behavior
• Strategic Restraint
• Applications
• Monopoly-price Determination
• Privatization
• Migration Policy
• Minimum Wage
• Tournaments.