Many developing countries have suffered under the personal rule of kleptocrats', who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expropriate the wealth of their citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption. We argue that the success of kleptocrats rests, in part,...

A policy of deputization asks agents to monitor others without providing explicit incentives. It is often used to prevent dangerous activities. To calibrate whether and why it works, we study recent laws that deputized financial professionals to help fight elder financial abuse. We show...

Zur Gestaltung einer attraktiven und spannenden Umweltberichterstattung sind aktuelle Indikatoren notwendig. Umweltdaten liegen jedoch häufig mit einer großen zeitlichen Verzögerung vor, so dass es oftmals, speziell für den datenbasierten Journalismus, schwer ist, diese Daten zu...