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ICNIE adalah Indonesian Community for New Institutional Economics, komunitas peminat New Institutional Economics di Indonesia. Sedangkan situs icnie.org adalah wujud keberadaan ICNIE. Inisiatif pengembangan ICNIE ini dimulai sejak tahun 2000 sebagai salah satu wujud pengabdian pada masyarakat. ... selengkapnya
Sumber: Editorial Media Indonesia
SEMAKIN rajin saja pengadilan tindak pidana korupsi (tipikor) di daerah membebaskan terdakwa korupsi. Contohnya Pengadilan Tipikor Bandung dan Lampung seakan berlomba membebaskan terdakwa korupsi.
Tidak hanya itu. Seperti tidak mau kalah, Pengadilan Tipikor Samarinda, Kalimantan Timur, pun membuat kejutan. Dalam tempo tiga hari, pengadilan itu membebaskan 14 pesakitan korupsi.
Vonis majelis hakim tipikor di daerah membuat kita geram. Geram karena sangat kontradiktif dengan putusan pengadilan tipikor pusat yang nyaris tidak pernah membebaskan satu pun terdakwa korupsi. Apalagi jika kasusnya diajukan jaksa Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK).
Sumber: Editorial Media Indonesia, Senin, 21 2011.
SULIT membantah jika ada yang mengatakan gedung parlemen di negeri ini laksana pasar saja. Benar pula jika ada yang menilai proses legislasi di negara ini tak ubahnya proses jual beli belaka.
Di gedung parlemen itu memang berlangsung barter dan jual beli pasal-pasal dalam pembahasan rancangan undang-undang. Perbedaannya, transaksi barang dagangan di pasar dilakukan terbuka, sementara transaksi di parlemen berlangsung tertutup. Meski dibungkus rapat-rapat, bau bangkai tercium jua.
Oleh: Kurniawan Agung*
BERBAGAI tantangan ke depan, seperti semakin kompleksnya inovasi produk keuangan dan perbankan, semakin beragamnya kejahatan perbankan, relatif rendahnya tingkat literasi masyarakat, maupun krisis keuangan global 2008 yang dampaknya masih dirasakan berbagai negara besar, telah menjadi pelajaran berharga bagi Pemerintah di banyak negara untuk menjadikan perlindungan nasabah sebagai salah satu prioritas utama reformasi sektor keuangan.
Gap kesenjangan informasi (assymetric information) antara nasabah dan bank terkadang menyebabkan masyarakat memiliki bargaining power yang lebih rendah dibandingkan bank semakin menyadarkan akan perlunya upaya lain yang perlu ditempuh Pemerintah guna lebih meningkatkan perlindungan nasabah.
Sumber: nber.org
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world’s most diverse ecosystems.
To better understand why deforestation occurs, Robin Burgess, Matt Hansen, Ben Olken, Peter Potapov, and Stefanie Sieber analyze data on annual changes in forest cover during an eight- year period of institutional change in post-Suharto Indonesia.
They find that: increases in the numbers of political jurisdictions are associated with increased deforestation.
They also find that illegal logging increases dramatically in the years leading up to local elections, suggesting the presence of “political logging cycles”. And, illegal logging and rents from unevenly distributed oil and gas revenues are short run substitutes, but this effect dissapears over time as political turnover occurs.
The results illustrate how incentives faced by local government officials affect deforestation, and provide an example of how standard economic theories can explain illegal behavior.
Deforestasi di Kalimantan
A collection of essays promoting innovation and growth through legal reform
Download Buku dari sumber: kauffman.org
The United States economy is struggling to recover from its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. After several huge doses of conventional macroeconomic stimulus—deficit-spending and monetary stimulus—policymakers are understandably eager to find innovative no-cost ways of sustaining growth both in the short and long runs.
In response to this challenge, the Kauffman Foundation convened a number of America’s leading legal scholars and social scientists during the summer of 2010 to present and discuss their ideas for changing legal rules and policies to promote innovation and accelerate U.S. economic growth. This meeting led to the publication of Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform, a comprehensive and groundbreaking volume of essays prescribing a new set of growth-promoting policies for policymakers, legal scholars, economists, and business men and women. Some of the top Rules include:
Reforming U.S. immigration laws so that more high-skilled immigrants can launch businesses in the United States.
Improving university technology licensing practices so university-generated innovation is more quickly and efficiently commercialized.
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