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Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability

Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

formulation and implementation attests to the significance of legal norms in constituting new spaces of financial accountability …

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Government constraints and economic voting in Greece

Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

economic reforms imposed by the EU and the IMF. However, recent theories of accountability would predict lower levels of … international structures, government constraints and democratic accountability. …

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Government Constraints and Economic Voting in Greece

Kosmidis, Spyros - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

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Are there any Animal Spirits behind the Scenes of the Euro area Sovereign Debt Crisis?

Mamatzakis, Emmanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper reveals the underlying market’s preferences over the on going Euro area sovereign debt crisis. It builds on a loss function with reference to the ‘basis’, the difference between the spread over swap and Credit Default Swap (CDS) for sovereign bonds. This loss function is general...

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Evaluation logics in the third sector

Hall, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In this paper I provide a preliminary sketch of the types of logics of evaluation in the third sector. I begin by tracing the ideals that are evident in three well-articulated yet quite different third sector evaluation practices: the logical framework, most significant change stories, and...

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Term limits and electoral accountability

Smart, Michael; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters’ ability to reward politicians with re-election, appear counterproductive. We show that despite the disciplining effect of elections, term...

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The importance of the wording of the ECB

Rosa, Carlo; Verga, Giovanni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper analyses the ECB communication, focusing in particular on its transparency dimension. We posit that if the …

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The wrong kind of transparency

Prat, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

transparency on action is detrimental to the principal. The paper also shows the existence of complementarities between … transparency on action and transparency on consequence. The results are used to interpret existing disclosure policies in politics …, corporate governance, and delegated portfolio management. …

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Speculative attacks with multiple sources of public information

Cornand, Camille; Heinemann, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

these signals sufficiently differ. We derive some implications for information dissemination policy. Transparency in this …

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Monetary policy and its informative value

Baeriswyl, Romain; Cornand, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of economic transparency in the conduct of monetary policy. We propose a model … monetary policy and the optimal central bank's disclosure. We define transparency as an announcement by the central bank that … allows firms to identify the rationale behind the instrument. It turnsout that transparency is welfare increasing (i) when …

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