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stages is bounded only by the fragmentation of the underlying engineering process, and lower frictions monotonically increase …
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The trade linked to international production networks – supply-chain trade for short – is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data...
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properly designed - leniency may simultaneously provide an effective governance mechanism for occasional sequential illegal …
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reciprocal exchange to lifetime employment, from relational governance to corruption/collusion. We study how agents …
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Recent events in several countries have underscored the importance of good governance in private occupational pension …. Under complete contracting, governance can be shown to be neutral: DC and DB plans differ only on risk allocation. If …
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Contracts often reward inefficient tasks and are not enforced ex post. We provide a new explanation based on the relationship between explicit contracts and implicit agreements, distinguishing the ex-ante decision to sign a contract from the ex-post decision whether to apply it. We show that it...
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Recent research on central bank governance has focused mainly on their monetary policy task. As the sub-prime loan … also in ensuring their soundness and stability. In this paper we study the specific corporate governance structures of a … public governance literatures, where present. Our analysis highlights a striking variety in central bank governance …
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