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Information Sharing Networks in Linear Quadratic Games

Currarini, Sergio; Feri, Francesco - 2013

We study the bilateral exchange of information in the context of linear quadratic games. An information structure is here represented by a non directed network, whose nodes are agents and whose links represent sharing agreements. We first study the equilibrium use of information in any given...

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Privatization, competition and corruption: How characteristics of bribe takers and payers after bribe payments to utilities

Clarke, George R. G.; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2002

microeconomic factors affecting bribes paid in a single sector of the economy. Using enterprise-level data on bribes paid to … bribes and the firms paying bribes affect the equilibrium level of corruption in the sector. Bribe takers (utility employees …) are more likely to take bribes in countries with greater constraints on utility capacity, lower levels of competition in …

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Waste Prevention and Social Preferences: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations

Cecere, Grazia; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2013

Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started...

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Geographical distribution of crime in Italian provinces: A spatial econometric analysis

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Uberti, Teodora Erika - 2008

For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist:...

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Corruption and political interest: Empirical evidence at the micro level

Torgler, Benno; Dong, Bin - 2008

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the effects of political interest on corruption despite the...

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The causes of corruption: evidence from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher openness, more access to media and relatively higher...

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Juvenile delinquency and conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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Are academics messy? Testing the broken windows theory with a field experiment in the work environment

Ramos, João; Torgler, Benno - 2010

We study the broken windows theory with a field experiment in a shared area of a workplace in academia (department common room). We explore academics' and postgraduate students' behaviour under an order condition (clean environment) and a disorder condition (messy environment). We find strong...

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'Thou shalt not covet ...': prohibitions, temptation and moral values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - 2010

We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral values that (internally) sanction prohibited actions and their desire may increase utility by reducing self-control costs, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply...

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The consequences of corruption: evidences from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010

With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic development. The overall impact of corruption might be the...

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