The impact of rent seeking on social infrastructure and productivity

I develop a neoclassical growth model in which rent seeking impacts negatively on productivity and welfare because it discourages the accumulation of social infrastructure. I estimate the fraction of resources wasted in rent seeking for a sample of 141 countries. On average, countries in the first (...

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Published in:Review of development economics 2021-08, Vol.25 (3), p.1741-1760
Main Author: Río, Fernando
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Accumulation
Consumption
control of corruption
Growth models
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institutional quality
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Rent-seeking
social infrastructure
social welfare
Welfare
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Consumption
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Infrastructure
institutional quality
Per capita
Productivity
Rent-seeking
social infrastructure
social welfare
Welfare
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