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Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …
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Business and Official Records : Do the Different Approaches Found in the CEC and FRE Tell the Whole Story? Avoiding the Hearsay Ban While on the Road to the Divide that Separates C...
Raeder, Myrna - 2015
police and other business records can be introduced not only in administrative settings, but also in federal courtrooms in … Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA), the only bar to police reports appears to be in the unlikely event they violate due …
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A History of Online Gatekeeping
Zittrain, Jonathan L. - 2014
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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries: What do we (not) know?
Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2012
For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...
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The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments
Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This survey presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses and the estimation results. The purpose of the survey is threefold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists....
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How to Reduce Violent Pressure on Business in Russia?
A. Yakovlev. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 11 (2012)
The paper considers the factors explaining violent pressure of law enforcement agencies on businessmen in Russia in recent years. This phenomenon has been analyzed from the viewpoint of "destructive entrepreneurship" concept (Baumol, 1990) and "limited access order" framework (North et al.,...
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Government size, market-orientation and regional corruption: Evidence from the provincial level panel data
ZHOU Li¡¯an; Jing, TAO - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 4 (2009) 3, pp. 425-448
Using a panel data at the provincial level during the period of 1989–2004, this paper examines the effects of social and economic factors such as government scale, privatization, openness, and education on regional corruption. Applying a fixed-effect model and IV estimation, we find that...
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Rational Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Sentence Length
Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2012
Are suicides rational? At least since the 70's economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous economic conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking behavior. In...
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The Engine Immobilizer: A Non-Starter for Car Thieves
Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - CESifo - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large...
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