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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino - 2013

Anti-money laundering regulations have been centred on the “Know-Your-Customer” rule so far, overlooking the fact that criminal proceedings that need to be laundered are usually represented by cash. This is the first study which tries to provide an answer to the question of how much of cash...

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Size and Development of the Shadow Economy and of Do-it-Yourself Activities in Germany

Buehn, Andreas - 2007

This paper presents the first MIMIC (multiple indicator multiple causes) model estimate of the size and development of the shadow economy and of do-it-yourself (DIY) activities in Germany from 1970 to 2005. By 2005, they reached a level of about 17% and 4.94%. While the shadow economy has...

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Tax Evasion and Economic Crime. Empirical Evidence for Italy

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2015

This paper examines the impact of tax evasion on criminal activities in Italy. Precisely, we consider three types of crime particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds and usury. By using annual data for the Italian provinces...

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Does Tax Evasion Affect Economic Crime?

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2018

This paper examines the impact of tax evasion on criminal activities in Italy. Specifically, we consider three types of crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury. We estimate a dynamic panel using annual data from...

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Lies in Disguise - A Theoretical Analysis of Cheating

Dufwenberg, Martin - 2017

We perform a (psychological) game-theoretic analysis of cheating in the setting proposed by Fischbacher & Föllmi-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility in proportion to the amount in which he is perceived...

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias - 2018

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...

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A Journey from a Corruption Port to a Tax Haven

Hebous, Shafik - 2011

corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a …

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External Sovereign Debt in a Monetary Union : Bailouts and the Role of Corruption

Achury, Carolina - 2011

contrary, under corruption, we show that bailouts are ineffective unless rent-seeking groups are eradicated …

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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam

Borcan, Oana - 2013

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage announcement. To measure corruption we compare changes in exam outcomes from 2009 … induced better exam outcomes in public than in private schools and we attribute this difference to increased corruption by …

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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence

Biswas, Amit K. - 2013

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …

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