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authority also chooses an enforcement policy in terms of the fraction of non-leniency cases that it prosecutes. Using numerical … analysis, the impact of a leniency program on the steady-state cartel rate is investigated. Holding the enforcement policy of … outside of the program. Because of this less aggressive enforcement policy, it is possible that the cartel rate is higher when …
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This paper presents some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. Complementing studies by Chau (2001, 2003), Karlson and Katz (2003) and Gang and Yun (2006), we consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border...
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The United States has not created a major amnesty program that would allow undocumented immigrants to legalize their status since 1986. As the number of undocumented immigrants has surged in recent decades, momentum for a new amnesty program has gained ground. This paper discusses the current...
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We develop a sovereign debt model with offcial and private creditors where default risk depends on both the level and the composition of liabilities. Higher exposure to offcial lenders improves incentives to repay but carries extra costs, such as reduced ex-post flexibility. The model implies...
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This paper compares non-enforceable and enforceable measures of labor rigidities as a measure of the quality of labor institutions, and tests whether such labor rigidities are conducive to long-run growth. We find that non-enforceable labor regulations do not have a bearing on economic growth,...
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enforcement and measures their impact on money laundering proxies. The paper finds that tougher money laundering regulations …
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for conventional enforcement. Increasingly sophisticated research examines the benefits of cleanup of contaminated sites …
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This study examines labor standards enforcement and compliance in two Asian economies (Bangladesh and Cambodia) that … trade incentives with labor standards enforcement. These contrasting experiences suggest that in less developed countries …
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This study examines the status and enforcement of labor standards in two Asian economies (Cambodia and Bangladesh) that … States that linked positive trade incentives with labor standards enforcement. These contrasting experiences suggest that …
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We develop a model in which two countries choose their enforcement levels non-cooperatively, in order to deter native … back. We show that, when extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement compared to the cooperative … sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …
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