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Black Sheep or Scapegoats? Implementable Monitoring Policies under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior
Buechel, Berno; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2014
An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...
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Size, Determinants, and Consequences of Corruption in China's Provinces : The MIMIC Approach
Chen, Hailin - 2018
This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910628
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Corruption in Russia - Historic Legacy and Systemic Nature
Schulze, Gunther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2021
This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …
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Exposition to Corruption and Political Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947352
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Status Concerns as a Motive for Crime?
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - CESifo - 2013
This paper analyzes the implications of potential offenders caring about their relative status. We establish that subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a...
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Deterrence through Word of Mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009
The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees allowing us to distinguish between households who have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094256
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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 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/10005406072
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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 - CESifo - 2013
deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than …
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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583665
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Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty: Facts or Ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2011
support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020796