corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …

of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that corruption … is going to decrease because of the efforts of the EU to fight corruption or because of the opening of the markets to …

Studying a relatively under-researched aspect in economics, this paper examines the nexus between corruption and … academic freedom. Our main hypothesis is that greater corruption undermines academic freedom and we test this hypothesis using … the direct and indirect (through corruption) effects of various drivers of academic freedom. Finally, additional insights …

. In this paper, we conjecture that judges may also have anti-speculator sentiment, which might affect their professional … that judges would have an anti-speculator bias. However, in an actual behavioral study, 185 judges did not exhibit such … that a communication problem exists between lawyers and non-lawyers (i.e. between judges and the general public), we find …

. In this paper, we conjecture that judges may also have anti-speculator sentiment, which might affect their professional … that judges would have an anti-speculator bias. However, in an actual behavioral study, 185 judges did not exhibit such … that a communication problem exists between lawyers and non-lawyers (i.e. between judges and the general public), we find …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …

-and-file? We investigate this question using legislative speech from the Norwegian Parliament and recently developed techniques for …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …