Macher, Jeffrey T.; Mayo, John W.; Nickerson, Jack A. - In: Journal of Law and Economics 54 (2011) 1, pp. 25-25
The now standard principal-agent model of regulator-firm interactions typically assumes the presence of a single regulator and an exogenously determined information asymmetry between the principal and the agent. In this paper we draw upon a unique data set of regulatory inspections conducted by...