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...
Main Author: | Zaourak, Gabriel |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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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 |
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