This paper reviews the literature on commercial sport through the lens of the economic
theory of contests/tournaments. It seeks to draw together research on incentives in …

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-
holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has …

A rent or transfer is politically contestable when policy decisions are subject to influence by
potential beneficiaries and losers. This paper studies contestablility of rents and transfers …

The rent-seeking competitions studied by economists fall within a much broader category of
conflict interactions that also includes military combats, election campaigns, industrial …

Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the
masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that …

This survey focuses on alternative ways of modelling rent-seeking contests. My primary
concern is with the relationship between the extent of rent dissipation and the underlying …

The theory of rent seeking was initiated by Tullock (1967, 1980), followed by Krueger (1974)
and Posner (1975) and, more recently, extended in various directions by Allard (1988); …

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This paper analyzes Tullock's rent-seeking game with asymmetric valuations for a variable
range of the returns to scale parameter. A necessary and sufficient condition for a unique …

Competitive situations resembling contests are ubiquitous in modern economic landscape.
In a contest, economic agents expend costly effort to vie for limited prizes, and they are …