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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and organized crime organizations, their sources and … developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat the financing of terrorism. -- Financial flows of terrorist … organizations ; Hawala banking ; money laundering ; organized crime ; kinds of terrorist financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949487
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Election fraud and post-election conflict : evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph H.; Mansour, Hani; … - 2013
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It is not clear, however, whether this association is causal or due to unobserved institutional or cultural factors. This paper examines the relationship between election fraud and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763227
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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality
Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016
The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an employee-organization context. In particular, we aim at identifying whether student subjects in the role of employees are willing to blow the whistle on their managers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531925
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Incentives in tournaments with endogenous prize selection
Harbring, Christine (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
mitigated in a repeated interaction between the agents and the principal. As sabotage can hardly be observed in real-world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002453250
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The welfare effects of law enforcement in the illegal money lending market
Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Pavanini, Nicola; Walsh, … - 2022
We estimate a structural model of borrowing and lending in the illegal money lending market using a unique panel survey of 1,090 borrowers taking out 11,032 loans from loan sharks. We use the model to evaluate the welfare effects of alternative law enforcement strategies. We find that a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262951
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Silence of the innocents : illegal immigrants' underreporting of crime and their victimization
Comino, Stefano; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Nicolò, Antonio - 2016
We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues when dealing with the legal status of immigrants: it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572023
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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625350
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Extreme weather events and climate change : economic impacts and adaptation policies
Ferreira, Susana - 2024
This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks. While evidence that richer, better governed societies suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454717
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New moneys under the new normal? : bitcoin and gold interdependence during COVID times
Agnese, Pablo; Thoss, Jonathan - 2021
Bitcoin in particular and so-called cryptocurrencies in general have shaken up the financial world and seem to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517614
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Investment climate and employment growth : the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes (contributor);  … - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578886