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作者:Duczynski, P
作者单位:Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague; Czech Academy of Sciences
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作者:Baldwin, JD; Oaxaca, RL
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作者:Gu, WL; Ho, MS
作者单位:Harvard University
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作者:Mason, PL
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida State University
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作者:Hellmann, TF; Murdock, KC; Stiglitz, JE
作者单位:Stanford University; McKinsey & Company; The World Bank
摘要:In a dynamic model of moral hazard, competition can undermine prudent bank behavior. While capital-requirement regulation can induce prudent behavior, the policy yields Pareto-inefficient outcomes. Capital requirements reduce gambling incentives by putting bank equity at risk. However, they also have a perverse effect of harming banks' franchise values, thus encouraging gambling. Pareto-efficient outcomes can be achieved by adding deposit-rate controls as a regulatory instrument, since they fa...
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作者:Carroll, CD; Overland, J; Weil, DN
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Brown University
摘要:Saving and growth are strongly positively correlated across countries. Recent empirical evidence suggests that this correlation holds largely because high growth leads to high saving, not the other way around. This evidence is difficult to reconcile with standard growth models, since forward-looking consumers with standard utility should save less in a fast-growing economy because they know they will be richer in the future than they are today. We show that if utility depends partly on how con...
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作者:Aliber, RZ
作者单位:University of Chicago
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作者:Acemoglu, D; Verdier, T
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Universite PSL; Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
摘要:Because government intervention transfers resources from one party to another, it creates room for corruption. As corruption often undermines the purpose of the intervention, governments Mill try to prevent it. They may create rents for bureaucrats, induce a misallocation of resources, and increase the size of the bureaucracy. Since preventing all corruption is excessively costly, second-best intervention may involve a certain fraction of bureaucrats accepting bribes. When corruption is harder...
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作者:Duflo, E
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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作者:Greenwood, J; Guner, N; Knowles, JA
作者单位:University of Rochester; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Pennsylvania