演講者簡介 : Professor Guo Xu received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are Political Economy, Economic History, Development Economics, and Organizational Economics.
演講摘要 : We combine comprehensive data on the U.S. federal rulemaking process with individual-level personnel and voter registration records to study the consequences of partisan misalignment between regulators and the president. We present three main results. First, even important pieces of new regulation are frequently delegated to bureaucrats who are politically misaligned. Second, rules that are overseen by misaligned regulators take systematically longer to complete, are more verbose, generate more negative feedback from the public, and are more likely to be challenged in court. Third, in assigning regulators to rules, agency leaders often face a sharp tradeoff between political alignment and expertise. Agency frictions notwithstanding, they tend to resolve this tradeoff in favor of expertise.
Working Paper Title : The Determinants and Consequences of Political Selection in the Developing World: Evidence from India
Working Paper Speaker : Professor Siddharth George
Working Paper Biography : Professor Siddharth George received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are Development Economics, Political Economy, and Labor Economics.
