Inequality, Lobbying, and Resource Allocation.

This paper describes how wealth inequality may distort public resource allocation. A government seeks to allocate limited resources to productive sectors, but sectoral productivity is privately known by agents with vested interests in those sectors. They lobby the government for preferential treatme...

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Publicado en:	American Economic Review Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 257 - 280
Autores principales:	Esteban, Joan, Ray, Debraj
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	American Economic Association March 2006
Materias:	Lobbyists Lobbying Mathematical models of political participation Resource allocation > Mathematical models Wealth Mathematical models
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