Search Results - subject:"Institutional Design"

Targeting Rules with Intrinsic Persistence and Endogenous Policy Inertia.

Hanson, Michael S.; Kapinos, Pavel - Economics Department, Wesleyan University - 2006

We investigate the optimality of monetary policy targeting rules in a macroeconomic model based on explicit micro-foundations for intrinsic persistence in inflation and real output. For the corresponding social welfare loss function to be minimized by the central bank, inertia arises...

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Paradigms of Decentralization, Institutional Design, and Poverty: Drinking Water in the Philippines

Singh, Satyajit - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2006

This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its effectiveness in poverty alleviation. As centralization and decentralization are not definitive concepts but defining features, there are bound to be different pathways to...

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Paradigms of Decentralization, Institutional Design and Poverty : Drinking Water in the Philippines

Singh, Satyajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper looks at the different paradigms of decentralization for drinking water supply in the Philippines and its effectiveness in poverty alleviation. As centralization and decentralization are not definitive concepts, but defining features, there are bound to be different pathways to...

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Governance structures for competition policy : a case study of the Philippines

Cabalu, Helen; Kenyon, Peter; Koshy, Paul; … - In: Philippine Review of Economics 43 (2006) 2, pp. 101-114

Competition policy has become one of the key elements of national economic policy in many countries around the world. This is due to the important role that competition plays in ensuring that markets efficiently produce goods and services that best meet evolving consumer demands. This paper...

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Stabilität und institutionelles Design einer nichtoptimalen Währungsunion: spieltheoretische Bedingungen für eine Lösung der Euro-Krise

Vöpel, Henning - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 82 (2013) 2, pp. 61-75

-theoretical requirements for an institutional design that is able to permanently stabilize a non-optimal currency area. It is shown that an … institutional gap that still exists in the eurozone. An adequate institutional design must change the "game" in order to make a …

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Looking beyond States: Openings for international bureaucrats to enter the institutional design process

Johnson, Tana - In: The Review of International Organizations 8 (2013) 4, pp. 499-519

high-politics, leave openings for international bureaucrats to enter institutional design processes. The findings enhance … our understanding of institutional design, principal-agent relationships, non-state actors, and divisions of labor in … dataset that captures, for the first time, variation in the roles that international bureaucrats play in the institutional …

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Organization without delegation: Informal intergovernmental organizations (IIGOs) and the spectrum of intergovernmental arrangements

Vabulas, Felicity; Snidal, Duncan - In: The Review of International Organizations 8 (2013) 2, pp. 193-220

The renaissance in the theoretical analysis of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) has focused on formal IGOs (FIGOs), but many IGOs are subject to no formal treaty and/or have no permanent secretariat. Important examples of informal IGOs (IIGOs) include the G-groups that are the locus of...

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The contextualist turn and schematics of institutional fit: Theory and a case study from Southern India

Lejano, Raul; Shankar, Savita - In: Policy Sciences 46 (2013) 1, pp. 83-102

The policy literature has long recognized the inherent need for a program to fit the unique conditions found in a certain context. We present a theory of institutional contextualism that focuses on the mechanisms by which actors adapt a policy design to fit a situation. We conceptualize...

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Commerce and institutions: Trade, scope, and the design of regional economic organizations

Haftel, Yoram - In: The Review of International Organizations 8 (2013) 3, pp. 389-414

The design of current regional economic organizations (REOs) is remarkably diverse. Some REOs address numerous economic issues, while others have only limited mandates. Some REOs have an independent bureaucracy and a legalized dispute settlement mechanism (DSM), while others do not. What...

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Environmental regulation and civil liability under causal uncertainty : an empirical study of the French legal system

Bentata, Pierre - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 9 (2013) 2, pp. 239-263

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