Tom rents rooms to students.

I'd like to call the 'rents.

Tom rents a three room apartment.

She rents a room to a student.

She rents a room to a student.

She rents a room to a student.

Tom rents a house with three bedrooms.

Tom rents an apartment on Park Street.

Tom rents an apartment on Park Street.

As farm prices and rents fell, aristocracy faced decline.

Is there any place around here that rents bicycles?

More intense competition, within and across countries, has decreased the available rents.

More intense competition, within and across countries, has decreased the available rents.

Rents disappear, and think of the effects of airline deregulation on pilots salaries.

Bargaining is mostly about the distribution of excess rents between the firm and its workers. In a competitive industry, where there are no excess rents, there is little to bargain about.

The Mama told us she rents out these beds to those that buy and sell sex.

Acquiring government power through possession of capital and converting it into unjust economic rents must be curtailed.

As a result, Microsoft cannot extract anything close to its full monopoly rents unless it sells upgrades.

As a result, Microsoft cannot extract anything close to its full monopoly rents unless it sells upgrades.

Capitalism has perhaps eroded rents that workers in advanced countries enjoy by virtue of where they were born.

Compared to August 2013, rents in August 2014 have begun to fall in all big cities except Paris.

Political dysfunction exacerbates the problem, as conflict over access to resource rents gives rise to corrupt and undemocratic governments.

The fundamental economic mechanism that determined how the world worked was the struggle for rents between workers and capitalists.

Whereas equities have dividends, bonds have coupons, and homes provide rents, gold is solely a play on capital appreciation.

Confronted with the ensuing drop in demand, landlords would then have to lower rents or risk losing more tenants.

But these Rentiers have not been able to translate the rents of their natural resource wealth into sustained economic growth.

Indeed, oil rents eventually weaken state institutions, and this hollowing out of the state often gives rise to growing discontent.

With fixed supply, rents on these properties should increase at a rate equal to or above the rate of GDP growth.

Such countries evolve a hierarchical authoritarian society in which the only incentive is to compete for privileged access to commodity rents.

Moreover, higher house prices and rents distribute income from poorer households (which typically rent) to richer households (which own the houses).

Only these institutions are capable of preventing the elite capture and insider rents that are putting global prosperity at long term risk.

When there is a single price, all the various cost curves are merged into one and low cost projects enjoy large rents.

The problem of student rents has not improved in Paris. In fact, unlike the rest of the country, it's become even worse.

The institution rents a beautiful but not very big house on Brasilia Avenue, near the Universidad Americana (American University), another private university.

In comparison, other regions with fast rising rents like Los Angeles and Sacramento are seeing increases of at most 4.7 percent annually.

Whereas regulation creates unearned rents for overprotected minorities (taxi drivers, notaries, airline pilots, and telecom or electricity workers), deregulation reduces these rents and redistributes them to the general public. But because overprotected minorities enjoy privileged access to politicians, it is no surprise that deregulation incites so much fierce and effective opposition.

Instead, the state is the target of political entrepreneurs who strive to capture it in order to capture the rents that it controls.

Without government regulation (including rules requiring that consumers purchase their useless services), public notaries would not have the position from which they draw rents.

The outcome is that in Europe, contrary to the US, an increase in the demand for services produces higher rents, rather than more jobs.

Many services remain inefficient, because they are either in the domain of an archaic public administration or enjoy monopoly rents created by regulatory barriers.

Moreover, commodity booms frequently produce ugly politics in countries with weak institutions, leading to costly struggles for resource rents, which are rarely invested wisely.

The cost of corruption has been particularly high in India and Indonesia, where policies created monopolies that earned scarcity rents, which were then allocated to officials family members.

The limits on redistribution through the market are much tighter trying to appropriate the rents may lead firms to move to emerging countries, or else to go bankrupt.

The limits on redistribution through the market are much tighter trying to appropriate the rents may lead firms to move to emerging countries, or else to go bankrupt.

Rents from oil production impede reforms in the major exporting countries. Thanks to their lubricated financial strength, regimes like those in Venezuela and Iran increasingly feel unconstrained by international rules.