firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model can encompass collusion between clients and auditors, arising from … the joint provision of auditing and consulting services: deflecting collusion requires less ambitious standards. Finally …, banning the provision of consulting services by auditors eliminates collusion but may not be optimal in the presence of …

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

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 …

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

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

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 … typically cannot be directly used for a cartel case due to the underlying statutes and the legal and administrative procedures …

behavior, that takes the form of collusion or blackmail, on the part of members of a simple hierarchical structure. We focus on …-blowing, creates incentives for the uninformed colluding party to walk out of the side deal and report to the principal that collusion …

, when rescaling is feasible, private monitoring is more efficient than public monitoring subject to collusion because non …-monetary penalties are ineffective to deter collusion. …