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Corruption and crisis: Do institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2022
about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …
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Law enforcement and illegal markets: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil
Mancha, André - 2022
I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the effect of shifts in legal authorities' surveillance by focusing on junkyards, firms often associated with illegal markets and auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities...
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Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated? The role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime
Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana; Iturbe, Nayely - 2023
When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins...
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Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making: An experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert; Miettinen, Topi - 2016
Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …
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How does petty corruption affect tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa? An empirical analysis
Jahnke, Björn - 2017
analyse how petty corruption erodes tax morale. A mediation analysis shows that petty corruption directly reduces tax morale … severe in countries and regions where fewer people are affected by petty corruption and becomes insignificant if extortion of …
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Extractive industries: addressing transparency, corruption, and theft
Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024
governance that sometimes leads to resources being used for private rather than public benefit. It discusses the corruption that …, not least in improving the information base. Although corruption and theft may never be fully eliminated, they can …
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Global oil theft: Impact and policy responses
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. However, the impact of oil theft is...
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Countering global oil theft: Responses and solutions
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market...
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last 20 years. While there is evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there is scarcely any evidence of how it influences...
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Incorporation of offshore shell companies as an indicator of corruption risk in the extractive industries
Marcolongo, Giovanna; Zambiasi, Diego - 2022
of offshore entities as an indicator of corruption risk. We find that the number of new shell companies increases by 11 … the award of an exploration licence increases the risk of corruption. Consistent with rent-maximising behaviour, this … association is stronger when the price of oil increases. Our work informs the fight against corruption, proposing greater …
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