Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93774 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 208
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
In this paper, firms engage in rent seeking in order to be assigned a governmental contract. We analyze how a change in the contract length affects the firms' rent-seeking behavior. A longer contract leads to more rent seeking at a contract assignment stage, as the firms value the contract higher. On the other hand, the contract has to be assigned less often, which of course leads to less rent seeking. Finally, a longer contract makes a possible cooperation between the firms solving the rent-seeking problem more difficult to sustain.
Subjects: 
Contract length
rent seeking
cooperation
relational contract
JEL: 
D72
D74
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.