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Deterrence Works for Criminals
Khadjavi, Menusch - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …
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Size effect, neighbour effect and peripheral effect in cross-border tax games
Liu, Xin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper analyses a game theoretic model of tax competition in a system where tax authorities are revenue optimisers and countries are differentiated by size. The model accommodates more than two countries. In equilibrium, larger countries set higher tax rates non-cooperatively. By applying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956103
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Interjurisdictional competition and the efficiency of the public sector: The triumph of the market over the state?
Rauscher, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996
It has been argued in the literature that, interjurisdictional competition forces the public sector to increase its efficiency and thus helps to tame Leviathan governments. The paper addresses this hypothesis by means of a simple taxcompetition model with a Leviathan state. It is seen that the...
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955680
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The nature of corruption: An interdisciplinary perspective
Dimant, Eugen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to a massive trans-border threat while creating...
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Do less-violent technologies result in less violence? A theoretical investigation applied to the use of tasers by law enforcement
McCannon, Bryan C. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The use of a taser by law enforcement can substitute for either a gun (a more-violent technology) or a mildly-violent technology (such as pepper spray or hands-on tactics). Which is used affects both the severity of harm when used and the amount of resistance, which affects how often it must be...
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Are Unfair Import Laws Unfair to Developing Countries: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Actions 1990-2004
Morkre, Morris E.; Spinanger, Dean; Tran, Lien H. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic...
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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?
Weber Abramo, Claudio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the...
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Spurious middlemen in corrupt transactions
Bayar, Güzin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
To solve the corruption problem, its root causes should first be diagnosed and factors supporting it should be determined. One of the important facilitators of corrupt transactions are intermediaries, who make corrupt dealings less risky, thereby increasing corruption. Even worse, there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983165
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755119