Sunday, March 11, 2012

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Published / Preprint: A Regulator's Exercise of Career Option To Quit and Join A Regulated Firm's Management with Applications to Financial Institutions

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 09:16 PM PST

We introduce a model of managerial compensation, in context of labor market mobility, for regulators who design mechanism(s) that affect firm capital structure, and then cash in later by exercising a career option to join management or a consultancy. Examples of this "revolving door'' mobility include but is not limited to, politicians who become lobbyists; insurance commissioners who become...

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: Saturday Night Video: Dave, Eddie and Alex

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 03:31 PM PST

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Blog Post: InstituteforNewEconomicThinking: READING ROOM: Demise of Chinese Exports Greatly Exaggerated

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 09:21 AM PST

Facing rising labor costs, several major companies have shifted production from China to other Asian countries. But is China’s manufacturing sector in decline? An article from the Hong Kong based Fung Global Institute suggests that China’s manufacturing sector remains strong and that what has happened is simply a shift up the value-added chain. Labor-intensive, low value-added...

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: How Not to Use Econometrics!

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 09:06 AM PST

I loved this post by Eric Crampton on the Offsetting Behaviour blog. Time to call in the Regression Police, methinks! © 2012, David E. Giles

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RT @freakonometrics: Logic of Finance Can Banish Corruption http://t.co/xH854Hd3 Robert Shiller

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 06:36 AM PST

moneyscience: RT @freakonometrics: Logic of Finance Can Banish Corruption http://t.co/xH854Hd3 Robert Shiller

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