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The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT States, firms, and other types of governors routinely rely on intermediaries to govern issues on their behalf. Such indirect governance drives regime complexity: governors frequently enlist multiple intermediaries for governing an issue. I theorize that governors foster complexity to maximize utility from indirect governance.
David Hagebölling
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Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2003 S. Shirk, M. Karver
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Motivational Goal Bracketing [PDF]
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for ...
Koch, Alexander K., Nafziger, Julia
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When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Endeavoring to avoid the pitfalls of being too trusting of regulated entities' compliance claims, regulators sometimes create regulatory systems with elaborate requirements for verification. But as these accountability and verification regimes attempt to circumvent one set of problems, they may inadvertently create others.
Carol A. Heimer
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Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 2007 R. Burwell, S. Shirk
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Missing Contracts: On the Rationality of not Signing a Prenuptial Agreement [PDF]
Many couples do not sign prenuptial agreements, even though this often leads to costly and inefficient litigation in case of divorce. In this paper we show that strategic reasons may prevent agents from signing prenuptial agreements.
Antonio Nicolò, Piero Tedeschi
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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
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Training, Job Security and Incentive Wages [PDF]
This paper considers the optimal level of firm-specific training by taking into account the positive effect of training on the expected duration of workers’ current employment.
Margarita Katsimi
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Accountability in the Delivery of Guaranteed Employment Through MGNREGA in Rural India
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use the uneven rollout of accountability measures to identify their impact on the provision of guaranteed employment in rural Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. A public information campaign combined with an NGO‐supported grievance mechanism resulted in treated households working over 10 additional days per year in the program. We find no
Tara Bedi, Lukas Kuld
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