Search Results - subject:"congressional oversight"

A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis

Stein, Jerome L. - 2010

A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...

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A Critique of the Literature on the US Financial Debt Crisis

Stein, Jerome L. - CESifo - 2010

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The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?

Sobel, Russell S.; Coyne, Christopher; Leeson, Peter - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2009

This paper investigates the political economy of FEMA’s post-9/11 merger with the Department of Homeland Security. Using panel data for the post-DHS merger but pre-Katrina period, we examine how FEMA’s much-debated reorganization has impacted the strong political influences on disaster...

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Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - In: Public choice 160 (2014) 1/2, pp. 131-153

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Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law

Makowsky, Michael; Stratmann, Thomas - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 1, pp. 131-153

set to test the extent to which congressional oversight determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We …

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Congress, Treasury, and the Accountability of Exchange Rate Policy: How the 1988 Trade Act Should Be Reformed

Henning, C. Randall - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2007

practice: The reports provide only a partial basis for effective congressional oversight. For its part, Congress held hearings … guidance to the Treasury, standards for assessment, and congressional oversight. These include (1) refining the criteria used … reports provide only a partial basis for effective congressional oversight. For its part, Congress held hearings on less than …

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The Politics of Senatorial Confirmations: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Brazil

Lemos, Leany Barreiro; Llanos, Mariana - 2006

Though an important function of the Latin American senates, the confirmation of presidential nominations has drawn little academic attention. This paper assesses empirically the way in which two Latin American upper chambers - the Argentine and Brazilian senates - made use of their confirmation...

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The Politics of Senatorial Confirmations: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Brazil

Lemos, Leany Barreiro; Llanos, Mariana - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006

Though an important function of the Latin American senates, the confirmation of presi-dential nominations has drawn little academic attention. This paper assesses empirically the way in which two Latin American upper chambers – the Argentine and Brazilian sen-ates – made use of their...

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Multiple Principals and Oversight of Bureaucratic Policy-Making

Gailmard, Sean - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (2009) 2, pp. 161-186

I examine a model in which multiple legislative principals monitor a bureaucratic agent's implementation of a project. The principals can each perform oversight of the implementation to limit information asymmetries exploited by the agent. Oversight is costly to perform and due to information...

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Is an exemption from US groundwater regulations a loophole or a noose?

Daniels, Brigham; Weinthal, Erika; Hudson, Blake - In: Policy Sciences 41 (2008) 3, pp. 205-220

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