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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …

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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system

Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016

The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...

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Reputation and credit market formation : how relational incentives and legal contract enforcement interact

Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2009

The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...

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Losers and losers : some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms

Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011

Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Reported MPC in the presence of debt

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2021

We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the self-reported Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC). The MPC is 43 per cent on average, but indebted households have a smaller MPC than non-indebted households. This negative...

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Households debt restructuring : the re-default effect of a debt suspension

Fraisse, Henri - 2017

When facing financial distress, French households can file a case to a "households' over-indebtedness commission" (HDC … the nature of their indebtedness. Our results imply that rather than focusing on a specific debt profile, above all a …

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Black Lives Matter protests, social distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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Caste, courts and business

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022

We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...

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Criminal victims, victimized criminals, or both? : a deeper look at the victim-offender overlap

Entorf, Horst - 2013

bivariate system, broken homes, criminal records of parents and personal indebtedness turn out as highly relevant factors of …

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