The author theoretically and empirically explores the ethnic identity of descendants of the Indian traveler/Gipsies/Sinti in Slovenia who still represent a "tabula rasa" for the researchers. The author investigates the extent to which the Sinti ethnic particular identities sacralize the Sinti...

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 may capture regulators due to their high degree of sophistication. Banks can...