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This paper explores the possibility that the establishment of central banks may have not been the result of socially beneficial public policy but the result of rent-seeking. I use the case of the most powerful central bank in the world as a model. In the paper I classify and explain the possible...
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Using the arguments of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich August von Hayek, I argue that private ownership solves the problem of corruption. Because private ownership discourages entrepreneurs from rent-seeking and because privately owned media provide quality information to citizens, the legal...
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We present a model of parallel redistribution system to explain the problem of corruption. Within this model we synthesize both agency theory and rent-seeking. More precisely, we argue that the principal-agent theory has problems accounting for the environment in which the agents offering and...
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What were the purposes for establishment of central banks? Central banks are historically relatively young organizations. Their main purposes are to regulate money supply through interest rates, regulate the banking sector and act as a lender of last resort to banking sector during the time of...
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Can tight and centralized financial regulation prevent financial crises? Governments usually respond to financial crises with tightening and centralizing financial regulation. In this paper, we explore the historical parallels between the governmental responses to the financial crises at the end...
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Can tight and centralized financial regulations prevent financial crises? Governments usually respond to financial crises with tightening and centralizing financial regulations. In this paper, we explore the historical parallels between the governmental responses to the financial crises at the...
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