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The first scholars to propose, explicitly, that a theory of agency be created, and to actually begin its creation, were … theory of agency, and Mitnick for the institutional theory of agency, though the basic concepts underlying these approaches … origin and early years of the theory, placing its development in the context of other research in this area …
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In their recent seminal work, Kaplow and Shavell demonstrate that any metric for policy evaluation that takes into account factors other than individual welfare is Pareto-inefficient; in particular, they argue at length that notions of fairness - insofar as they do not directly contribute to...
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promised higher profitability partly because of better risk management made possible by advances in information technology and …. Because systemic risk cannot be fully privatized social insurance against it is inevitably a common pool (or open) resource …, which means that there is an incentive for financial units to over-extract in the form of excessive risk taking in the …
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This paper analyses the political constraints of intergenerational risk sharing. The first result is that the political … PAYG still contributes to intergenerational risk sharing. The third result is that aging increases the discrepancy between …
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We study the effect of a huge sports sentiment shock, unrelated to economic conditions or government actions, on stock market outcomes. After Brazil's 7-1 humiliating defeat to Germany in the 2014 World Cup, which is likely to be one of the largest sports sentiment shocks ever, the stock market...
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Expectation formation about future trade liberalization induces sectoral adjustment in advance and so the number of opposition decreases and trade liberalization can be self-fulfilling. We analyze this expectation formation mechanism in political process from two aspects: population aging and...
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This study finds that stock return volatility is higher during periods of high tax policy uncertainty (TPU), even after controlling for other sources of general macroeconomic uncertainty. Further, we find that the relation between TPU and stock return volatility is more pronounced where firms...
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A key role of science-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to communicate scientific knowledge to policymakers. However, recent evidence has emerged showing that industry-backed groups often attempt to undermine the credibility of such NGOs and weaken their ability to influence policy....
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How does political uncertainty affect firms' saving? We incorporate election uncertainty into a dynamic model of firm investment and saving. Our model predicts that firms build up pre-election cash balances and, because cost of capital is high when uncertainty is high, begin to rely on this...
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We document that postwar U.S. elections show a strong pattern of "incumbency disadvantage": If a party has held the presidency of the country or the governorship of a state for some time, that party tends to lose popularity in the subsequent election. We show that this fact can be explained by a...
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