election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts … Verträge sollen die durch die Wahl ausgeübte Kontrolle der Politiker unterstützen.Es werden zwei Arten von Anreizverträgen …The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the …

-selection of Politicians and Corruption," I, together with my coauthor Evsen Turkay, build a citizen-candidate model, in which …This dissertation is comprised of two papers. In the first one, titled "Public Investment and Corruption in an … regarding public investment, corruption, and economic growth. In the model, government maximizes the weighted average of …

results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …

welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …

in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …