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Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians : Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator
van Aaken, Anne - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772555
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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part II)
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144782
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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part I)
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144785
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316054
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119115
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159
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Corruption and Political Stability : Does the Youth Bulge Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989563
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The Impact of Democracy and Press Freedom on Corruption : Conditionality Matters
Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2021
This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315866
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Lobbying and Bribes - A Survey-Based Analysis of the Demand for Influence and Corruption
Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E.; Lassen, David Dreyer - 2021
perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption …/or have fewer competitors have more political influence, perceive corruption to be less of a problem and pay bribes less often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315996
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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316367