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transparency is optimal. This is because more transparency facilitates more effective coordination, which is valuable from a social … ambiguity becomes optimal if there is a high risk that more transparency will lead to coordination failures …
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need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …
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We develop a political-economy model of economic union and compare the competion regime to the coordination regime. Key … of migration. We argue that the differences between the U.S. and the EU - the degree of coordination among the member …
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This paper examines issues in the current debate over coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. Section I1 … uses the traditional targets-instruments approach to assess the potential gains from greater coordination. Since greater … coordination is often equated with looser money and tighter fiscal policy, two econometric models of the economy are used to …
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. However, coordination on a rule leaves arbitrators as a group vulnerable to manipulation by coalitions of employers or …
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Modern technology provides the basis of an efficient low-cost electronic payments as an alternative to the current system where fiat money is the medium of exchange. This paper explores possible macro-economic implication, showing how such a financial system might enhance government's ability to...
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This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
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In a model of industry standard setting with private information about firms' intellectual property, we analyze (a) firms' incentives to contribute to the development and improvement of a standard, and (b) firms' decision to disclose the existence of relevant intellectual property to other...
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Traditional analyses of standards in international trade identify standards as government regulations and investigate the potential for distortion of trade flows. In reality, however, private industry groups exercise critical influence on the determination of technical standards. The composition...
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This paper introduces the concept of standard risk aversion. A von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function has standard risk aversion if any risk makes a small reduction in wealth more painful (in the sense of an increased reduction in expected utility) also makes any undesirable, independent risk...
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