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Credibility and Independence of the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Barro-Gordon-Type Approach to Antidoping Policy
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This paper argued that strong antidoping policies are not credible unless conducted by a completely independent WADA, provided that its president has either a very strong aversion to doping or a wage contract that incites him or her to implement the announced level of effort.Abstract:
This article argues that the antidoping policy faces a credibility problem very similar to that identified for the conduct of the monetary policy. Using a theoretical framework a la Barro-Gordon in which athletes form rational expectations about authorities’ effort against doping, the author shows that strong antidoping policies are not credible unless conducted by a completely independent World Anti-Doping Agency, provided that its president has either a very strong aversion to doping or a wage contract that incites him or her to implement the announced level of effort.read more
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Nobody’s Innocent The Role of Customers in the Doping Dilemma
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Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that discretionary policy does not result in the social objective function being maximized, and that there is no way control theory can be made applicable to economic planning when expectations are rational.
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The Optimal Degree of Commitment to an Intermediate Monetary Target
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that the ideal central bank should place a large, but finite, weight on inflation, and a new framework for choosing among alternative intermediate monetary targets is proposed.
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A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural-Rate Model
Robert J. Barro,David B. Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a rational expectations equilibrium in a discretionary environment where the policymaker pursues a "reasonable" objective, but where precommitments on monetary growth are precluded is established.
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Sport as a Common Property Resource: A Solution to the Dilemmas of Doping
Edward J. Bird,Gert G. Wagner +1 more
TL;DR: The use of drugs in high-performance sports (doping) is a common pool resource (CPR) dilemma: regardless of the number of other athletes who dope, the athlete with strong tastes for victory will find doping optimal; yet if all athletes dope, they all bear negative health consequences, although each one's odds of victory are not greatly changed.