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Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion: Some empirical evidence

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  1. Department of Economics, Southeastern Louisiana University, 70402, Hammond, LA

    Franklin G. Mixon Jr.

  2. Department of Economics, Salisbury State University, 21801, Salisbury, MD

    David N. Laband

  3. Department of Economics, Auburn University, 36849-5242, Auburn, AL

    Robert B. Ekelund Jr.

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We wish to thank John Jackson, Robert Hebert, Gordon Tullock and an anonymous referee for helpful comments on earlier draft of the paper.

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Mixon, F.G., Laband, D.N. & Ekelund, R.B. Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion: Some empirical evidence. Public Choice 78, 171–185 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050393

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