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Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2012

enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …

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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2012

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … determinants of decisions made at each stage of regulatory enforcement for over 40,000 audits from 1990 to 2000. This includes an …

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Optimal Regulation of Auditing

Pagano, Marco; Immordino, Giovanni - CESifo - 2007

We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...

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Globalization and Domestic Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - CESifo - 2005

”). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with …

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The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries: A Simple Analytical Framework

Mejía, Daniel - CESifo - 2008

demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and trafficking of drugs), and shows how the …

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Credibility for Sale

Dellas, Harris; Niepelt, Dirk - CESifo - 2013

We develop a sovereign debt model with official and private creditors where default risk depends on both the level and the composition of liabilities. Higher exposure to official lenders improves incentives to repay but carries extra costs, such as reduced ex-post flexibility. The model implies...

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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement: Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels

Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2011

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … proposed rule change could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of cartel enforcement, and open an additional front in the …

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