Rent, Interest, Profit

Collusion Among Interest Groups: Foreign Aid and Rent-Dissipation

This paper develops a game-theoretic model of public policy in a developing country in order to explain a number of empirical regularities. It is shown that under certain circumstances, an increase in government revenue will be completely crowded out by increased rent dissipation, leaving the provision of public goods unaltered. In this model, there are two possible ways in which foreign aid ma...

The Profit Orientation of Microfinance Institutions and Effective Interest Rates

— With the rise in the number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), commentators are asking whether the sector benefits by MFIs having stronger profit orientations. We address this question by analyzing the relationship between interest rates and adopting the for-profit legal form, appointing private sector representation and traditional banking experience to advisory boards, and part...

A Jurisprudential Analysis on Provisional Profit Assurance of Investment Deposits in Interest-free Banking

The term investment deposits are one of the important modes of mobilization of resources in the Iranian banking system that are eligible for a certain provisional profit. According to the bank’s agency in this term of deposits, the appliance of Provisional Profit and its periodic payment to depositors before calculating of actual profit at the end of the fiscal year, are for incentives of custo...

Rent Control

Rent-setting in multiple winner rent-seeking contests

In this paper, we analyze a multiple winner rent-seeking contest where the number of winners is set by a self-interested regulator. The winners receive a license to compete in a market. The structure of competition in the market influences the number of winners through the preferences of the regulator. The model indicates that Cournot competitors can be better off than firms that are able to co...