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General Equilibrium and Dynamic Inconsistency

Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail; Wendner, Ronald - 2022

We study the role of expectations of naive agents in a general equilibrium version of the Ramsey model with quasi-hyperbolic discounting. When agents recognize others’ naivete, as strongly suggested by empirical evidence, they revise consumption paths, correctly anticipating prices in a...

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Overcoming Time Inconsistency with a Matched Bet : Theory and Evidence from Exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2022

This paper introduces the matched-bet mechanism. The matched bet is an easily applicable and strictly budget-balanced mechanism that aims to help people overcome time-inconsistent behavior. I show theoretically that offering a matched bet helps both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to...

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Artificial time inconsistency as a remedy for the race to the bottom

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Busch, Oliver - 2005

A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of redistributive taxation. This paper considers the effects of deferred integration of migrants into the redistributive system of the target country. In a model of symmetric...

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Corruption Under Austerity

Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …

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EU Accession : A Boon or Bane for Corruption?

Alfano, Vincenzo - 2020

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

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Bribing the Self

Gneezy, Uri - 2020

Expert advice is often biased in ways that benefit the advisor. We demonstrate how self-deception helps advisors be biased while preserving their self-image as ethical and identify limits to advisors' ability to self-deceive. In experiments where advisors recommend one of two investments to a...

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Taxation, corruption and the exchange rate regime

Hefeker, Carsten - 2009

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime …. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption … countries with regard to the level of corruption. …

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The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union

Costain, James; Nuño, Galo; Thomas, Carlos - 2022

We build a no-arbitrage model of the yield curves in a heterogeneous monetary union with sovereign default risk, which can account for the asymmetric shifts in euro area yields during the Covid-19 pandemic. We derive an affine term structure solution, and decompose yields into term premium and...

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Exchange Rate and Inflation Under Weak Monetary Policy : Turkey Verifies Theory

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kısacıkoğlu, Burçin; Lee, … - 2022

For the academic audience, this paper presents the outcome of a well-identified, large change in the monetary policy rule from the lens of a standard New Keynesian model and asks whether the model properly captures the effects. For policymakers, it presents a cautionary tale of the dismal...

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The Effect of News Shocks and Monetary Policy

Görtz, Christoph - 2019

A VAR model estimated on U.S. data before and after 1980 documents systematic differences in the response of short- and long-term interest rates, corporate bond spreads and durable spending to news TFP shocks. Interest rates across the maturity spectrum broadly increase in the pre-1980s and...

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