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Bureaucrats or Politicians? Part I: A Single Policy Task
, 2007 This paper investigates the normative criteria that guide the allocation of a policy task to an elected politician versus an independent bureaucrat. The bureaucrat is preferable for technical tasks for which ability is more important than effort, or if ...
A. Alesina, G. Tabellini
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Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations
Social Science Research NetworkMany countries are facing and resisting strong migratory pressure, fueling irregular migration. In response to mounting deaths in the Central Mediterranean, European nations intensified rescue operations in 2013. We develop a model of irregular migration
C. Deiana +2 more
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Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory
Journal of Economic LiteratureWhat is the most efficient way of designing incentives in an organization? Over the past five decades, agency theory has provided various answers to this crucial question.
Pierre Fleckinger +2 more
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The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asymmetric Processing of Objective Information about Yourself
, 2011 David Eil, Justin M. Rao
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Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and Applications
, 2013 Eric Budish +3 more
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An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”
The American Economic Review, 2023Regressions of private-sector macroeconomic forecast revisions on monetary policy surprises often produce coefficients with signs opposite to standard macroeconomic models.
Michal Bauer, Eric T Swanson
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Information Design: A Unified Perspective
Journal of Economic Literature, 2017Given a game with uncertain payoffs, information design analyzes the extent to which the provision of information alone can influence the behavior of the players.
D. Bergemann, S. Morris
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Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field
The American Economic Review, 2022Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we demonstrate that community knowledge can help target high-growth ...
Reshmaan N. Hussam +2 more
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Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies
The American Economic ReviewWe study the effects of intensifying competition for contracts in the context of US Defense procurement. Leveraging a discontinuous regulation that mandates agencies to publicize certain contract opportunities, we document that expanding the set of ...
R. Carril +2 more
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