1. Rent-seeking Behaviors in Property Development: A Literature Review.
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Ali, Suhaila and Aziz, Abdul Rashid Abdul
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REAL estate development ,RENT seeking ,ECONOMIC development ,CONSTRUCTION projects ,CONSTRUCTION industry - Abstract
This paper reviews the literature on rent-seeking behaviors in property development, and discusses three major areas: (1) definition and concept of rent-seeking; (2) factors for the rent-seeking behavior appeared; and (3) the impact of rent-seeking behaviors, particularly on property development. In general, there is no exact word that can define what rent-seeking is. It is found that from the reviewed studies that a few researches have adopted search tasks to predict rentseeking behavior effects in the economy and the respective economic performance. Based on the findings of the review, rent-seeking behavior increases social cost and this might lead to problems such as corruption. This paper paves the way for future studies in examining rent-seeking behaviors in the Malaysian property development, especially for targeted actions to be taken to alleviate upward pressure on home prices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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