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    Why We Don’t Write More Papers on Political Finance

    Opinion

    Posted on 17 August 2021

    By Orkun Saka

    Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of interests that may exist in economics research. This...
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    Electoral politics | Media | Regulation

    Finance and Politics: New Insights

    Opinion

    Posted on 4 August 2021

    By Orkun Saka

    A rapidly expanding literature has shown the importance of political economy factors for legislative and regulatory actions in the financial sector and ultimately financial sector stability and efficiency. This column...
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    Central banking | Political institutions | Regulation | Special interest politics

    Political Economy in Finance

    Opinion

    Posted on 6 July 2021

    By Enrico Perotti

    This post reports on recent work presented at the first edition of the CEPR Conference Series on the Political Economy of Finance, which focused on the politics of regulation and...
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    Central banking | Empirics

    Fifty Shades of QE: Comparing Findings of Central Bankers and Academics

    Paper

    Posted on 3 July 2021

    By Elisabeth Kempf

    We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find QE to be more...
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