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Learning About Compliance Under Asymmetric Information
Arguedas, Carmen; Rousseau, Sandra - 2014
Over time, inspection agencies gather information about firms that cause harmful externalities. This information may … certain circumstances, mimicking, or even the threat of mimicking, might reduce socially harmful activities and thus be …
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'To Promote the General Welfare' - Addressing Political Corruption in America
Owen, Bruce M. - 2016
Systemic (but lawful) political corruption reduces well-being and equity in America. Madisonian democracy is no longer capable of containing such corruption. Proposals currently on the table to stem corruption are unlikely to be effective without undermining foundational rights. This essay...
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A perfectly competitive economy is an economy without welfare relevant endogenous learning
Nyborg, Karine - 2021
endogenous welfare relevant learning is feasible, the economy cannot be perfectly competitive unless identical learning choices … information is shared, externalities arise. The standard conditions for the two fundamental welfare theorems, thus, implicitly … preclude heterogeneous welfare relevant learning decisions. …
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Learning about compliance under asymmetric information
Arguedas, Carmen; Rousseau, Sandra - In: Resource and energy economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 55-73
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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Enforcement and public corruption : evidence from US states
Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2010
We use high-quality panel data on corruption convictions, new panels of assistant U.S. attorneys and relative public sector wages, and careful attention to the consequences of modeling endogeneity to estimate the impact of prosecutorial resources on criminal convictions of those who undertake...
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Setting a Good Example? The Effect of Leader and Peer Behavior on Corruption Among Indonesian Senior Civil Servants
Sondang Silitonga, Mala - 2020
Standard anticorruption interventions consist of intensified monitoring and sanctioning. Rooted in principal-agent theory, these interventions are based on the assumption that corrupt acts follow a rational cost-benefit calculation by gain-seeking individuals. Given their mixed results, however,...
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The Warnings Puzzle : An Upstream Explanation
Goeschl, Timo - 2017
Enforcement agencies issuing warnings are an empirical regularity in the enforcement of laws and regulations, but a challenge to the standard economic theory of public enforcement. A number of recent contributions explain the popularity of warnings as a response to information asymmetries...
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Combating Corruption in Indian Public Procurement – Some Exploratory Case Studies
Nag, Bodhibrata - 2017
This paper has adopted the exploratory case study method of analyzing a few recent cases of public procurement irregularities on Indian Railways documented by the vigilance departments and the CAG available in public domain to inquire into the following issues: (a) how do irregularities and...
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Tax Administrations’ Capacity in Preventing Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance
Heitmüller, Frederik - 2019
We explore the role of tax administrations in the fight against inequality through data analysis of a survey consisting of 71 questions that we have designed and sent to the tax administrations of all EU Member States. The survey focuses mainly on the capacity concerning the enforcement of tax...
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