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I am a PhD candidate at the Finance Group at Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. I will be joining Tilburg University as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2020.
My research interest are in banking, macro-finance and political economy. |
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References
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Enrico Perotti
University of Amsterdam |
Guillermo Ordoñez
University of Pennsylvania |
Toni Ahnert
Bank of Canada |
Job Market Paper
The Political Economy of Prudential Regulation
This paper studies the equilibrium level of prudential regulation in a framework with negative borrowing externalities. A debt limit is implemented by a politician appointed through majoritarian elections. As voting allows borrowers to internalize the externality, equilibrium regulation restores constrained efficiency whenever the politician can commit to enforce it universally. Under selective enforcement, a captured regulator may exempt politically connected borrowers from regulation. Depending on the electoral power of the connected borrowers, the outcome may be an either too lax or too strict policy. The analysis deepens the understanding of the role of political economy factors in affecting equilibrium regulation. Additional results highlight the impact of income inequality on the strictness of the policy.