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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …

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Commons, anti-commons, corruption and 'maffia' behavior

Canavese, Alfredo - EconWPA - 2004

The particular point that will be stressed in this paper is that benefits derived from corrupt behaviour depend on institutions devised to discourage it. The analytical framework used to explore the symmetric tragedies of the commons and the anticommons outlined by James Buchaman and Yong J....

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Unofficial Dollarization in Latin America: Currency Substitution, Network Externalities and Irreversibility

Feige, Edgar L.; Šošiæ, Vedran; Faulend, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2002

Argentina in order to examine the dynamic consequences of network externalities for hysteresis and irreversibility. …

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Why Do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity after Communism

Johnson, Simon; Kaufmann, Daniel; McMillan, John; … - EconWPA - 2003

Our survey of private manufacturing firms finds the size of hidden ‘unofficial’ activity to be much larger in Russia and Ukraine than in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A comparison of cross-country averages shows that managers in Russia and Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse...

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Crime and rationality: An empirical study of murdered police officers

Taylor, Leon - EconWPA - 2000

The rate at which police officers were murdered rose over the 1960s, although expected penalties also grew more severe. During that period, a subjective index indicates, arrest suspects may have become more prone to commit crimes for impulsive or political reasons rather than out of rational...

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The Dynamics of Currency Substitution, Asset Substitution and De facto Dollarization and Euroization in Transition Countries

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper presents new evidence on the dynamics of dollarization and euroization for twenty-five transition countries. Estimates of the amount of foreign currency in circulation (FCC) in transition countries are used to develop a new comprehensive dollarization index (CDI) and separate indices...

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...

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A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

Tella, Rafael Di; Weinschelbaum, Federico - EconWPA - 2005

In the standard moral hazard model, withholding of effort by the agent is not observable to the principal. We argue that this assumption has to be changed in applications that study corruption. The overwhelming majority of cases where corrupt politicians have been punished involve the detection...

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Why People Evade Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Tale of Twins

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper uses a survey of 1062 Czechs and 524 Slovaks to ask why people evade taxes. We maintain that the Czech and Slovak Republics are “twins” separated at birth and that divergences between these countries since their separation in 1992 can explain divergences in their rates of...

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The Evolution of Tax Evasion in the Czech Republic: A Markov Chain Analysis

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

We use a dataset of 1062 individuals from the Czech Republic to forecast the evolution of tax evasion in that country. We ask each respondent how intensely (never, sometimes, often) he evaded taxes in 1995, 1999, and 2000, to calculate probabilities the average individual will move between these...

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