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Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries : What Do We (Not) Know?
Buehn, Andreas - 2012
For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...
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The Engine Immobilizer : A Non-Starter for Car Thieves
van Ours, Jan C. - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086983
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Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy : Methods, Problems and Open Questions
Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility,...
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Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians : Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator
van Aaken, Anne - 2008
It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...
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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...
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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...
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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries: What do we (not) know?
Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2012
For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877780
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The Engine Immobilizer: A Non-Starter for Car Thieves
Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - CESifo - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607472