Rent seeking in groups

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-125

  Ahn, T K ^a   Isaac, R Mark ^b   Salmon, Timothy C ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic experiments; Rent seeking

Indexed keywords

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS; RENT-SEEKING; STANDARD MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78651066810     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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