{"460751":{"#nid":"460751","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Oliver Publishes Study on Corruption and Resource Use in Developing World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe current issue of \u003Cem\u003EStrategic Behavior and the Environment (SBE)\u003C\/em\u003E, a journal devoted to applied game theory for environmental and natural resource economics, features an original research article by Dr. Matthew E. Oliver of the Georgia Tech School of Economics, along with his colleague and former advisor from the University of Wyoming Department of Economics and Finance, Dr. Jason F. Shogren. The article, entitled \u201cContests, Common Agency, and Corruption: Why the Green Candidate Seldom Wins,\u201d presents a novel theory on the persistence of public sector corruption in the developing world\u2014corruption that is well understood by economists to lead to inefficient natural resource use and greater environmental degradation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOliver and Shogren explain that through a relationship called \u201ccommon agency\u201d, an elected official extracts bribes from agricultural and resource firms in exchange for favorable subsidization policies. The more corrupt the official, the greater the bribe, and the more firms will engage in inefficient, environmentally damaging production practices. Using \u201ccontest theory,\u201d Oliver and Shogren then demonstrate that in a political contest between a corrupt incumbent and a virtuous \u201cgreen\u201d challenger, the incumbent \u2013 having more to lose \u2013 expends greater effort in winning and is always the contest favorite. The green challenger is always the contest underdog, meaning she has a lower probability of winning the political contest and cleaning up the firms\u2019 behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information or to read the article, visit this \u003Ca title=\u0022Strategic Behavior and the Environment, Vol 5.2\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/nowpublishers.com\/article\/Details\/SBE-0057\u0022\u003Elink\u003C\/a\u003E or contact Dr. Oliver.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The current issue of Strategic Behavior and the Environment features an original research article by Dr. Matthew Oliver and Dr. Jason Shogren."}],"uid":"27365","created_gmt":"2015-10-20 10:35:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:47","author":"Jade Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"236451":{"id":"236451","type":"image","title":"Matthew Oliver","body":null,"created":"1449243659","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:40:59","changed":"1475894911","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:31","alt":"Matthew Oliver","file":{"fid":"197678","name":"oliver_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/oliver_photo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/oliver_photo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":130094,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/oliver_photo_0.jpg?itok=CZFt_-qt"}}},"media_ids":["236451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"145091","name":"Corruption"},{"id":"145081","name":"Green Candidate"},{"id":"109551","name":"Matthew Oliver"},{"id":"167037","name":"school of economics"},{"id":"171495","name":"Strategic Behavior and the Enviornment"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJade Hill\u003Cbr \/\u003ESOE Communications Coordinator\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jade.hill@econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejade.hill@econ.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jade.hill@econ.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}