When do special interests run rampant? : disentangling the role of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances in banking crises / Philip Keefer

Government responses to banking crises are less likely to favor special interest groups when elections are near, voters are better informed about the costs of inefficient government decisions, and governments have multiple veto players. Keefer investigates the political determinants of government de...

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Auteurs principaux:Keefer, Philip
Collectivités auteurs:World Bank
Format: Online-Resource
Langue:English
Publié:Washington, D.C : World Bank, Development Research Group, Regulation and Competition Policy, 2001
Collection:Policy research working paper
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Résumé:Government responses to banking crises are less likely to favor special interest groups when elections are near, voters are better informed about the costs of inefficient government decisions, and governments have multiple veto players. Keefer investigates the political determinants of government decisions that benefit special interest groups, especially government decisions to deal with banking crises. He finds that the better informed the voters, the more proximate elections, and the larger the number of political veto players (conditional on the costs to voters of relevant policy decisions), the smaller the government's fiscal transfers are to the financial sector and the less likely the government is to exercise forbearance in dealing with insolvent financial institutions
Description:"February 2001"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47). - Title from title screen as viewed on Sept. 18, 2002
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