The allocation of entrepreneurial efforts in a rent-seeking society: Evidence from China
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Keywords
Entrepreneurship; Rent extraction; Rent seeking;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights
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