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Commentators have explored the Supreme Court's certiorari process in detail, examining the practice through doctrinal, historical, empirical, and even economic lenses. Similarly, a few commentators have attempted to analyze the relationship between the Supreme Court and the lower courts using...
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Do opportunities in Parliament to improve and demonstrate effectiveness as lawmakers help politicians take up new posts in their parties and in government? We examine this question by leveraging a natural experiment in the United Kingdom where randomly selected twenty MPs are given an...
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Following on from a paper by Yoshiharu Oritani, Public Governance of Central Banks: An Approach from New Institutional Economics. Public governance is an institutional framework whereby the general public governs a central bank by and through the legislative and executive bodies in a country....
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The literature on the behavior of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has focused on static voting patterns. We find statistical support for a dynamic pattern using a panel reaction function to analyze MPC votes over the 1997-2008 period. We find that internal and external...
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Having read Public Governance of Central Banks by Yoshiharu Oritani and looking at the UK in particular I am proposing a model where all government money is held in a central series of bank accounts using the structure of recently nationalised banks and the post office branches to be used as a...
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bargaining over rents. Disentangling them is critical to the empirical identification of countervailing power. Testable …
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two main features of pricing schemes in business-to-business relationships: nonlinear price schedules and bargaining over …
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The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Brexit will involve many complex negotiations. This paper analyses the negotiation position of the parties (UK, EU, Member States) based on a set of four key negotiation factors: agreement options, non-agreement alternatives, interests, and...
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bargaining over rents. Disentangling them is critical to the empirical identification of countervailing power. Testable …. -- countervailing power ; bargaining ; nonlinear prices ; transaction panel data …
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This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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