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The Incentive Effect of Scores : Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees
Paravisini, Daniel - 2013
use existing information. Our results imply that credit scores improve the efficiency and decentralize decision-making in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459358
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Why Not a Political Coase Theorem? Social Conflict, Commitment and Politics
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
Do societies choose inefficient policies and institutions, in contrast to what would be suggested by a reasoning extending the Coase Theorem to politics? Do societies choose inefficient policies and institutions because of differences in the beliefs and ideologies of their peoples or leaders? Or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469326
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Collective Hold-Up
Iaryczower, Matiás; Oliveros, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider dynamic processes of coalition formation in which a principal bargains sequentially with a group of agents. This problem is at the core of a variety of applications in economics and politics, including a lobbyist seeking to pass a bill, an entrepreneur setting up a start-up, or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191078
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Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts : Economics vs Politics
Millner, Antony - 2014
Intertemporal conflicts occur when a group of agents with heterogeneous time preferences must make a collective decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We examine two methods: an 'Economics' approach that seeks to implement efficient allocations, and a 'Politics'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457961
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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study
Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many committees--juries, political task forces, etc.--spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794585
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Deadlock on the Board
Donaldson, Jason Roderick - 2019
We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making. We show that a board could retain a policy all directors agree is worse than an available alternative. Thus, directors may retain a CEO they agree is bad--a deadlocked board leads to an entrenched CEO. We explore how to compose boards and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480101
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Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Social Problems
Battaglini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study a dynamic model of environmental protection in which the level of pollution is a state variable that strategically links policy making periods. Policymakers are forward looking but politically motivated: they have heterogeneous preferences and do not fully internalize the cost of...
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The Purpose of Trade Agreements
Grossman, Gene M. - 2016
This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456604
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Tax and Education Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy : What Levels of Redistribution Maximize Growth and Efficiency?
Benabou, Roland - 1999
for missing credit and insurance markets. The resulting tradeoffs for growth and efficiency are explored, both … to higher income growth than taxes and transfers, but at the cost of lower insurance. Overall efficiency is assessed … welfare function, does not reward equality per se. Simulations using empirical parameter estimates show that the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471662
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Efficient Welfare Weights
Hendren, Nathaniel - 2014
How should we measure economic efficiency? The canonical measure is an unweighted sum of willingnesses to pay. In … contrast, this paper provides efficient welfare weights that implement the Kaldor-Hicks tests for efficiency but account for ….5-2x more than surplus to the rich. I illustrate how to use these weights to evaluate the efficiency of government policy …
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