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Using a Two-Stage Least Squares procedure, we estimate the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and police … and accounting for simultaneity bias, ethnic fragmentation is positively related to police spending. Our paper contributes … to the understanding of the stylized fact that public spending on police increased over a period in which the incidence …
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enforcement measures (negotiating and punitive enforcement measures) which are employed in facilitating and maximising compliance …
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country with weak judicial enforcement. Finally, it is consistent with Black and Kraakman (1996), who argue that, in rule …
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It is claimed that introducing flexibility in regulation is a sufficient condition for curbing the level of informality in the developing world. This dissertation tries to test the validity of this claim using data for 46 countries over the time period 1980-2008 to explore the dynamics between...
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enforcement measures (negotiating and punitive enforcement measures) which are employed in facilitating and maximising compliance …
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enforcement measures (negotiating and punitive enforcement measures) which are employed in facilitating and maximising compliance …
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antitrust enforcement and prove that it is better to increase damages that to reduce costs of initiating a suit. In particular …
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We revisit Greif's (1993) analysis of trade between the 11th-century Maghribi traders and present two different models which bring into play, in an essential way, historical features of the Maghribi's organization which had no role in Greif's own analysis. Our reformulation of the Maghribi's...
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This paper presents an internationally comparable assessment of several dimensions of migration policies as of early 2009. For a selected set of 28 countries, both developed and developing, we analyse the admission criteria, policies on integration and treatment of migrants, and efforts to...
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opportunities. This implies that trustworthiness may be evolutionary stable in the long-term. Although stricter enforcement (that …
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