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Leniency policies and illegal transactions
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2005 - First version: October 1999, Final version: September 8, 2005
We study the consequences of leniency - reduced legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously self-report to law … known that leniency helps deterring illegal relationships sustained by repeated interaction. Here we find that - when not … properly designed - leniency may simultaneously provide an effective governance mechanism for occasional sequential illegal …
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Corruption, organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law
Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - In: Journal of public economics 159 (2018), pp. 79-88
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Accomplice witnesses and organized crime : theory and evidence from Italy
Acconcia, Antonio; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 116 (2014) 4, pp. 1116-1159
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Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law
Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016
When Legislators introduce laws that award amnesties to 'low-rank' criminals co- operating with the justice, top criminals may bribe public officials to subvert the law. Legislators should anticipate this reaction and fight it back by introducing policies that bundle amnesties for low-rank...
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Optimal leniency and the organization design of group crime
Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore; Roberti, Paolo - In: Journal of public economics 191 (2020), pp. 1-16
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The dynamics of leniency application and the knock-on effect of cartel enforcement
Zhou, Jun - 2016
We study the timing of leniency applications using a novel application of multi-spell discrete-time survival analysis … investigation does not affect the rate by which conspirators apply for leniency in the market investigated, but increases the rate … revision of the Commission's leniency programme in 2002 increased the rate of pre-investigation applications. Our results shed …
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On cheating and whistleblowing
Berentsen, Aleksander; Brügger, Esther; Loertscher, Simon - 2004
We study the role of whistleblowing in the following inspection game. Two agents who compete for a prize can either behave legally or illegally. After the competition, a controller investigates the agents’ behavior. This inspection game has a unique Bayesian equilibrium in mixed strategies. We...
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Rater rating-level bias and accuracy in performance appraisals : the impact of rater personality, performance management competence, and rater accountability
Bernardin, H. John; Thomason, Stephanie; Buckley, M. R.; … - In: Human resource management 55 (2016) 2, pp. 321-340
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - In: Journal of economic theory 179 (2019), pp. 163-199
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Optimal destabilization of cartels
Auer, Ludwig von; Tu Anh Pham - 2019
of the fine that cartel members have to pay when they are detected. For testifying cartel members a leniency program is …
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