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The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...
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of the state's extractive technology. We posit further that this extractive technology is determined by the transparency … transparency of the new farming technology. We then apply our theory to explain key institutional features that distinguished …
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expectations. This paper analyses empirically whether enhanced central bank transparency lowers dispersion among professional … forecasters of key economic variables, using a large set of proxies for central bank transparency in 12 advanced economies. It … finds evidence for a significant and sizeable effect of central bank transparency on forecast dispersion, be it by means of …
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We analyze how transparency affects information acquisition in a bargaining context, where proposers may chose to … excessive in all our scenarios we find that the bargaining outcome depends crucially on the transparency of the bargaining …
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We analyse the effect of concealing limit order traders’ identities on market liquidity. We develop a model in which limit order traders have asymmetric information on the cost of limit order trading (which is determined by the exposure to informed trading). A thin limit order book signals to...
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In this paper we investigate central bank accountability by looking at the effect of transparency in a simple monetary … banker's preferences for inflation stabilization relative to output stabilization. Transparency enhances the central bank …'s accountability. The paper shows that transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks. …
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variation. 2) The enforcement of deregulation reform was better in regions with a transparent government, low corruption, better …
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acquire costly information that enhances their ability to make a correct decision. We focus on the impact of transparency. We … show that the principal's initial utility is higher under transparency, because members exert more effort, which makes … correct decisions more likely. The principal also benefits from transparency later, unless transparency leads to an alignment …
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We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyse the effects on inflation of both having a quantitative target, and of hitting a...
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Some investors (insiders) observe prices in real-time whereas other investors (outsiders) observe prices with a delay. As prices are informative about the asset payoff, insiders get a strictly larger expected utility than outsiders. Yet, information acquisition by one investor exerts a negative...
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