Dynamic Incentives and the Optimal Delegation of Political Power /

This paper proposes a theory to explain why a politician delegates policy tasks to a technocrat in an independent institution. It formalizes the rationales for delegation highlighted by Hamilton (1788) and by Blinder (1998). Delegation trades-off the cost of having a possibly incompetent technocrat...

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Hlavní autor: Le Borgne, Eric
Další autoři: Eggertsson, Gauti
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/091
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