issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable (“belief-based”) protection indeed leads to more reports, both …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …

deontological moral reminder (“corruption is immoral”) leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …

Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty …