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Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality : Evidence from Asia
Kar, Saibal - 2013
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088661
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Engaging in Corruption : The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2013
Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country …-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics …, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and values to examine the determinants of corruption, this paper goes beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073850
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On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2017
-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960284
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317746
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Shadow Economies in Highly Developed OECD Countries : What are the Driving Forces?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2012
In this paper the main focus lies on 'driving forces' of the development and size of the shadow economy in highly developed 39 OECD countries. The influential factors on the shadow economy are tax policies and state regulation, which, if they rise, increase the shadow economy, but also other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099408
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The Shadow Economy and Work in the Shadow : What Do We (Not) Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2012
In this paper the main focus lies on the shadow economy and on work in the shadow in OECD, developing and transition countries. Besides informal employment in the rural and non-rural sector also other measures of informal employment like the share of employees not covered by social security, own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108261
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2011
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129937
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Turning 18 : What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131169
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Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides
McCellan, Chandler B - 2012
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103497
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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects : An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges - 2020
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842061