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We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks …
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cities in the control group. Our results indicate that being awarded the Summer Olympics has, on average, a negative impact …
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measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud …
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assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we … analyze the impact of the welfare state on the respective social norm, i.e. benefit morale. It turns out that a high level of … public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …
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We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...
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welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …
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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance transmission channel. At the theoretical level, we develop a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which financial intermediaries make portfolio decisions on behalf of...
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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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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …
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measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers’ presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
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