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The structure and resilience of the financial system : proceedings of a conference held at the H. C. Coombs Centre for Financial Studies, Kirribilli on 20 - 21 August 2007

Kent, Christopher (contributor) - 2007

The papers in this volume were commissioned with the aim of exploring the significant structural changes in the financial system over the past decade or so and the implications for policy-makers charged with the responsibility of maintaining financial system stability

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Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

bivariate system, broken homes, criminal records of parents and personal indebtedness turn out as highly relevant factors of …

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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public service …

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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal

Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...

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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … three levels of transparency under which career concerns are predicted to affect behavior differently, and test the model …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out – transparency negatively …

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Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil’s recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the effects of the disclosure of local government...

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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...

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Can Central Bank Transparency Go Too Far?

Mishkin, Frederic S - Reserve Bank of Australia

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News and Interest Rate Expectations: A Study of Six Central Banks

Connolly, Ellis; Kohler, Marion - Reserve Bank of Australia

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A Perspective on Monetary Policy Transparency and Communication

Edey, Malcolm; Stone, Andrew - Reserve Bank of Australia

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