No News Is Good News: Public Visibility in Bureaucratic Decision-making Process

• In Event: Bureaucratic Discretion: Measurement, Decisions, and Outcomes

Brief Overview

I study FTC and DOJ enforcement decisions in antitrust regulatory reviews. I identify large rooms for discretions, and that bureaucrats are spotlight-chasing, which implies that expectations of public opinion could bias bureaucrats’ decisions.

Author

• Saikun Shi, Stanford University