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One explanation for the poor performance of regulation in the recent financial crisis is that regulators had been captured by the financial sector. We present a micro-founded model with rational agents in which banks capture regulators by their sophistication. Banks can search for arguments of...
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We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Agents differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity agents also own shares in the productive sector and thus...
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The purpose of this paper is to suggest how institutions can be created and modified to devise and implement industrial policy in the emerging market economies. Two main issues confronting industrial policy institutions are how to avoid regulatory capture, that is, having those policy-makers...
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Recent research on central bank governance has focused mainly on their monetary policy task. As the sub-prime loan market turmoil reminded us - central banks play a crucial role in financial markets not only in setting monetary policy, but also in ensuring their soundness and stability. In this...
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There are few if any technical problems involved in reversing the unconventional monetary policies - quantitative easing, credit easing and enhanced credit support - implemented by central banks around the world as short-term nominal interest rates became constrained by the zero lower bound. The...
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result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have challenged this assumption and claimed … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …
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The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences do not change as a result of experience with the … as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … maternity-ward attributes. In order to explore the effect of experience on preferences, the research sample was decomposed into …
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This paper analyzes optimal re-election bars when incumbents gain socially valuable experience in office. We develop a … two-period model in which the output of a public good depends on an office-holder's effort, ability and experience. When …. Together, these effects outweigh the expected loss of incumbents' acquired experience, which results from their reduced chances …
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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rises with experience in the new sector. …
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