The 2002 Winter Olympics scandal: rent-seeking and committees

The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach

Rent-seeking in the trade sector is an outcome of restrictions imposed on tariffs and import quotas by a government. In an effort to acquire more privilege in foreign trade, labor allocates a part of its time-effort to rent-seeking activity, while cutting down on production work. Given the importance of rent-seeking activity due to restrictions imposed by the government in the Iranian economy, ...

THE WINNER ’ S CURSE : Why is the cost of sports mega - events so often underestimated ?

Grenoble taxpayers were not very happy to pay local taxes up to 1992 for covering the financial deficit from the 1968 Winter Games! The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal outperformed Grenoble Winter Olympics in terms of deficit: the latter was so deep that Montreal taxpayers had been repaying the debt until 2006, for thirty years. After Montreal's financial mess, the number of candidate cities w...

What Is The Driving Force Behind Industrial Development In Iran? Rent Seeking And Labor Exploitation As The Driving Force Of Industrial Growth

Content Strategy and Fan Engagement in Social Media The Case of PyeongChang Winter Olympic And Paralympic Games

Background. This paper investigates the pillars of content strategy and fan engagement in social networks during 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Objectives. The purpose of this paper is to seek reasons behind the differences in fan engagement in social media channels of PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Methods. Facebook and YouTube channels are used to analyze en...

Investigating the Role of "Privatization" Policy in the Reform Government In exacerbating the phenomenon of rent-seeking

The purpose of this study was to analyze the sociology of neoliberal policy during the Reformation. This research is a library, descriptive and documentary study and the period under review was the Reform Government (Seventh-Eighth Government). The findings of the study showed that during the reform period of the government's liberal economics approach, regardless of the consequences of its pol...