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Surprised by Wirecard? : enablers of corporate wrongdoing in Europe
Nyreröd, Theo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2021
In the last two decades prolonged instances of corporate wrongdoing in Europe have been un-covered: from Siemens’ systemic bribery to HSBC and other major bank’s money laundering issues, Dieselgate, LIBOR price-rigging, and the recent Wirecard debacle. What has driven European firms to...
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Two sides of the same coin or two different coins? : exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America
Hugo, Ella; Savage, David; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2021
The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …
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Demonetisation : a golden opportunity for widening the taxpayer base
Singh, Rajiva Ranjan; Bagchi, Anandita - 2018
currency, corruption, and terror funding. With time, more targets were added such as the creation of a cashless economy …
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
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On judicial reform and corruption in developing and transition economies
Chong, Alberto; Cozzubo, Angelo - 2019
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Contagion risk and network design
Cerdeiro, Diego; Dziubinski, Marcin; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2015
Individuals derive benefits from their connections, but these may, at the same time, transmit external threats. Individuals therefore invest in security to protect themselves. However, the incentives to invest in security depend on their network exposures. We study the problem of designing a...
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Curbing grand corruption in the contracting out of public services lessons from a pilot study of the school meals program in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
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Grand corruption in the contracting out of public services : lessons from a pilot study in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583882
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Nemo propheta in patria : empirical evidence from Italy
Millemaci, Emanuele; Patti, Alessandra - 2022
places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …
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Anti-corruption agenda of the G20: bringing order without law
Goyal, Tanu M. - 2020
action became permanent features of the G20 agenda. Tackling corruption was one of them. Corruption is being characterised as … an international problem requiring collective corrective action. The G20 established an Anti-Corruption Working Group as … early as in 2010, at the fourth summit in Toronto, which sets the Anti-Corruption Action Plan for the G20 members. Over the …
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