Types of Malingering in PTSD: Evidence from a Psychological Injury Paradigm

Psychological Injury and Law - The extent to which persons may feign or malinger psychological symptoms is an important concern for civil litigation, specifically in the context of personal injury....     

The impact of surplus sharing on the portfolio mix of public sector defined benefit pension plans: a public choice approach

The riskiness of state employee pension plan portfolios varies across states. We investigate whether this variation is related to how public employees and taxpayers share actuarial surpluses of pension accounts. We focus on two determinants of a plan’s asset mix: the relative influence of public employees to taxpayers; and whether a surplus-sharing contract is specified. Our theoretical model demonstrates that the effect of public employee influence on the asset mix is ambiguous. Our empirical results corroborate this complex theoretical result. In our theoretical and empirical analyses, if a surplus sharing rule is specified, plans adopt a more aggressive investment allocation.     

Adding rooms onto a house we love: Central banking after the global financial crisis

This article examines the extent to which central bankers have been willing and able to rethink their beliefs about monetary policy in the wake of the global financial crisis. We show that despite the upheaval, the core pre‐crisis monetary policy paradigm remains relatively intact: central bankers believe that they should primarily pursue price stability through targeting a low inflation rate in a transparent manner, and that they need operational independence in order to achieve this goal. In a bid to address post‐crisis conditions and maintain their credibility, however, central bankers have also layered new elements onto this paradigmatic core. We document both the resilience of pre‐crisis beliefs and the process of layering using computer‐assisted text analysis and qualitative analysis of 13,586 speeches given between 1997 and 2017 by central bankers from around the world.     

(Non)equivalence in a federalism: Dual tax shares, flypaper effects and Leviathan

Among the best-known theorems of fiscal federalism is the presumed allocative and distributive equivalence between a lump-sum grant to a collectivity and a set of lump sum grants to the members of a collectivity. Interestingly, the simple elegance of the theorem is at odds with observed behavior. Grants to governments produce greater public spending than does tax reduction. Explanations of this "flypaper effect" range from misspecified econometric modeling to presumed behavior based on fiscal illusion. In this paper we show that theoretical equivalence exists in a model that recognizes only one tax share, the citizen voter's local tax share. When the model is expanded to include voters' federal tax shares as well as local taxes, non-equivalence and the flypaper effect become the rule, not the exception.     

La Commission Rochon et la réalisation des politiques publiques

Sommaire: La Commission d'enquête sur les services de santé et les services sociaux, créée par le gouvernement du Québec en juin 1985, a remis son rapport au tout début de 1988. Cet article montre que la Commission a agi comme une espèce de metteur en scène, qui a proposé ce que devrait être la contribution des acteurs et la structuration du pouvoir dans les politiques publiques en matière de santé et de services sociaux. La Commission privilégie une alliance de type bureaucratique et une alliance de type socio-sanitaire, contre une alliance de type médical et une alliance de type managérial. Cette dernière semble la mieux placée actuellement pour structurer le pouvoir dans le système des services de santé et des services sociaux selon ses intérêts. Abstract: The Study Commission on Health and Social Services, created by the Quebec government in June 1985, submitted its report in early 1988. This article shows that the commission acted as a “packager,” specifying the recommended role of the parties involved and the power structure for public policy on health and social services. The commission favours a bureaucratic alliance covering the social/health area, rather than a medical/managerial alliance. The latter currently seems to be in the best position to structure the power in the health/social services system in accordance with its interests.     

L'agence de réglementation et le transport aérien régional au Canada de 1966 à 1980

Sommaire: L'article traite des relations formelles entre une agence de rCglementa-tion et les entreprises commerciales sous sa juridiction. D decrit et analyse les DCcisions et Ordonnances dun tel organisme et Ctablit des indices de performance des sociCtCs en prksence. L'agence CtudiCe est le ComitC des transports aCriens de la Commission canadienne des transports et les cinq compagnies akriennes regionales oeuvrant au Canada de 1966 a 1980. Les rksultats dbmontrent que le ComitC a CtC trés actif pendant cette pkriode, produisant au-dela de 200 decisions et ordonnances. Celles-ci, de nature très diverses, correspondent B une intense pCriode de dkveloppement. La performance relative des sociCtCs et leur performance spCci-fique permettent de les classifier de facon hibrarchique et de constater que la compagnie QuCbecair a connu des difficult& dans ses relations rbglementaires. L'article s'interroge en conclusion sur la nature “limitative” du processus de rC-glementation. Abstract: This article deals with the relations between a regulating agency and the industry it regulates. Its goal is to describe and analyse the output of such an agency in terms of decisions and orders and in doing so, to establish “performance indicators” of the companies under regulation. The Air Transport Committee of the Canadian Transport Commission and the five regional carriers serving Canada between 1969 and 1980, are the object of the research. The results show that the CTA has been very active in terms of the volume and the variety of work. The performances of the carriers are about the same except for one, Quebecair, which has an extremely bad record. The article in its conclusion, questions the limitative character of the regulating process.