discussed appear relevant to the fight of other forms of multiagent organized crime - like auditor-manager collusion, financial … fraud, or corruption - that share with cartels the crucial features that well designed leniency and whistleblower programs …

organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads to higher rather than lower crime. … in corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and corruption … detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. When bribing costs are low …

enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is …

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is … corruption is to facilitate collusion in price between firms. This can result in high public spending and inefficient allocation … which unilateral anti-corruption controls may restore price competition. …

We consider a neoclassical growth model with endogenous corruption. Corruption and wealth, which are co-determined in … corruption, and if indeed as suggested by a number of empirical studies corruption hampers growth, then how did rich countries … relatively closed economies of the 19th century, the gains from corruption remained inside the country and became part of the …