showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime …

, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply the model to crime and study the conditions under which agents would … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external …

Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its “neighbouring” effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational … have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or …

determinants of environmental policies’ stringency, and show that differences in corruption levels are more important as … explanatory factor when compared to income differentials. Since high levels of corruption characterize some countries in the …

potential scope for rent seeking and corruption. The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested …

external lending, investment and debt. We then argue that this looting phenomenon provides an explanation for the generation of … corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …