and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and … corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … punishment induce organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads too higher rather than lower crime. …

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

Der unternehmensübergreifende Datenaustausch in der Welt von Industrie 4.0 birgt für Unternehmen immense Potenziale. So … unternehmensübergreifender Datenaustausch bei möglichst geringem Verlust von Know-how soll ermöglicht werden. Anschließend wird die Erprobung des …

absence of corruption within the judiciary as well as data gathered by the U.S. State Department as proxies. On the basis of … of which is the reduction of corruption. First tests concerning the economic effects of JA are carried out drawing on the …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …

The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective …, we argue, can be partially restored by having an accountable judiciary. Our empirical findings show that divided … government and elected, rather than appointed, state supreme court judges are associated with lower corruption and, furthermore …