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Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our...
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In this paper I investigate the relationship between the local political climate and regional heterogeneity in the portfolio composition of individual investors. I find that right-wing supporters are more likely to participate in financial markets and hold a larger share of their wealth in...
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Employee share ownership is growing increasingly important. This paper studies employee share ownership in an economy with one monopoly union for each firm. We modify an implicit contract model by adding dividend income to the usual wage income. Union members differ in exogenous stock endowments...
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trading illiquidity. Moreover, terms of trade are negotiated between investors and dealers pursuant to strategic bargaining …. Investors’ intrinsic types affect both their outside options and their bargaining powers. This paper proposes a search …-based theory with strategic bargaining to study investors’ dynamic portfolio choice and equilibrium asset prices in intermediated …
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We study the impact of politicians' asset allocation on their economic bill proposals. Using a novel database of comprehensive financial disclosures of Congress members in South Korea, we find that the Congress members with more real estate assets in their portfolios are less likely to propose...
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We analyse the impact of environmental policy in a vertical chain where an upstream monopolist uses a mixed portfolio, consisting of a polluting and a green technology. We examine and compare a no-intervention benchmark, a green subsidy, an abatement tax, a mandatory green standard, and a...
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This study employs bilateral data on external assets to examine the impact of climate policies on the reallocation of international capital. We find that the stringency of climate policy in the destination country is significantly and positively associated with an increase in the allocation of...
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