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Large public bureaucracies are commonly regarded as less efficient than modern private corporations. This paper explores how the degree of discretionary power might account for this difference in efficiency. Indeed, increasing the discretionary power of the intermediate layers of an organization...
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supervision. Central bank communication will constitute a central policy tool for that purpose. The paper asks how such … communication will affect financial markets, exploiting the fact that many central banks have had some financial stability role in … times, but can have a substantially larger effect during periods of financial stress. Moreover, central bank communication …
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in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
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communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …
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private agents to be successful--and much of this communication is channeled through the media. This is especially true for …
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We examine monetary policy in the euro area from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We discuss what theory tells us the strategy of Central banks should be and contrasts it with the one employed by the ECB. We review accomplishments (and failures) of monetary policy in the euro area...
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The paper presents a positive model of communication in federal legislatures to study the incentives of members to … consideration, communication between delegates generally suffers from a bias that make truthful revelation difficult and sometimes …-)centralization, which revisits Oates' decentralization theorem in a world of incomplete information and strategic communication. Empirical …
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We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most effective in achieving cooperation in a simple … collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …
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either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …
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, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i … communication and substantial employee discretion. (iii) Broad task assignments and intensive horizontal communication are … complementary. Hence, lower communication costs often result in less specialization. …
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