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Money Laundering and Corruption : Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Barone, Raffaella - 2019
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 …
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A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy
Ash, Elliott; Galletta, Sergio; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021
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 …
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Money laundering and corruption: birds of a feather flock together
Barone, Raffaella; Masciandaro, Donato; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052793
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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004
Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in many of these countries it is forbidden by law. In this paper we develop a politicaleconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261268
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Politicians: be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264506
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Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...
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Status-seeking in criminal subcultures and the double dividend of zero-tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ( zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263948
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Facts or Ideology: What Determines the Results of Econometric Estimates of the Deterrence Effect of Death Penalty? A Meta-Analysis
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013
Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that individual authors persistently claim to have found solid evidence in one or the other direction raises two questions. Firstly, what are the causes for these different results? Do...
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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty: Facts or ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011
In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...
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The law and economics of enhancing cartel enforcement: Using information from non-cartel investigations to prosecute cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - 2011
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...
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