Rent-seeking and market structure: Comment |
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Authors: | Russell Pittman |
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Institution: | 1. Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 20530, Washington, DC
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Abstract: | If the firms in an industry are to be successful in raising money to influence government, two conditions must be met: (1) there must be sufficient rents available from government decisions regarding that industry to make such expenditures worthwhile, and (2) the industry must be sufficiently concentrated to avoid a free-rider problem in fund-raising. This argument, though seemingly intuitively appealing, has been under recent empirical attack; this paper seeks to restore the parapets. |
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