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We consider a symmetric model composed of two countries and a firm in each country. Firms produce the same good by means of a polluting technology that uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt a clean technology that uses a renewable energy and that has a lower unit cost. Surprisingly,...
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How to conduct macro-prudential regulation? How to coordinate monetary policy and macro-prudential policy? To address …
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There are many situations in which a principal delegates decisions to a better-informed agent but does not choose to give full discretion. This paper discusses one reason why this might be desirable: the agent may have tastes that differ from those of the principal. Limiting the agent's...
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The Government of Indonesia (GOI) has been proposing a draft act on financial service regulatory authority, called Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK hereafter). In the aftermath of 1998 Asian crisis, the establishment of the institution was mandated through Bank Indonesia Act (Indonesia’s central...
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Has macroeconomic management succeeded in making privatization promote growth in Africa? What are the probable strategies that should accompany the privatization reform process to promote growth in Africa? To what extent has the privatization process succeeded in attracting foreign direct...
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The effect of the competition among self-regulatory organizations (SROs) on the efficiency of the corresponding goods and services markets is studied. It is shown that under certain conditions the competition among SROs worsens the quality of the goods and services and leads to decreasing...
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The effect of competition among self-regulatory organizations (SRO) on the efficiency of the corresponding goods and services markets is considered. It is shown that under certain conditions the competition among SRO worsens the quality of the goods and services and leads to decrease in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258971
principal can benefit from such delegation relative to centralization. We show that beneficial delegation is possible when … complete contracts cannot be written, and delegation of authority should necessarily be to the information gatherer. The benets … of delegation stem from either efficiency gains or reduction in rent to the information gatherer. …
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In an information transmission situation, a sender's concern for its credibility could endow itself with an invisible …, the sender can achieve its favored outcome without losing its credibility, which stays true even when the sender and the … receiver have contradictory preferences. Therefore, the sender's concern for its credibility could result in less truthful …
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We study optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New Keynesian model where occasional declines in agents' confidence can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no straightforward recipe for mitigating the welfare costs...
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