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Wait-and-See or Step in? Dynamics of Interventions

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  • Foarta, Dana

    (Stanford GSB)

  • Sugaya, Takuo

    (Stanford GSB)

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We study when and how intervention to stop a project is optimally used in a repeated relationship between a principal and a policymaker. The policymaker is privately informed about his ability, where a higher ability policymaker has a lower cost of producing a good project. He also privately chooses how much effort to supply on the project. Before the project is completed, the principal receives a signal about its outcome and can intervene to stop it from taking effect. Intervention may prevent a bad outcome, but no intervention leads to better learning about the policymaker’s ability. In the benchmark with observable effort, it is optimal to intervene only when the policymaker’s reputation is sufficiently low. If effort is not observable, the optimal response features switching between intervention and no intervention on the equilibrium path. The model rationalizes intervention technologies implemented in practice by supranational agreements and governing coalitions.

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  • Foarta, Dana & Sugaya, Takuo, 2018. "Wait-and-See or Step in? Dynamics of Interventions," Research Papers 3736, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecl:stabus:3736
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    1. Foarta, Dana & Ting, Michael M., 2023. "Organizational capacity and project dynamics," Working Papers 339, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.

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    JEL classification:

    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism

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