Rent-Seeking Activities, Misallocation, and Innovation in Argentina

What is the efficiency cost of rent-seeking activities in Argentina? This paper quantitatively shows that rent-seeking activities in the form of bribes have aggregate effects through two channels. First, they generate misallocation of resources acr...

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Main Author: Zaourak, Gabriel
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/820261592919425775/Rent-Seeking-Activities-Misallocation-and-Innovation-in-Argentina
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33988