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India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …
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Wirtschaftskriminalität in Deutschland wird in jüngerer Zeit zunehmend auch von wirtschaftlichen Unternehmungen selbst problematisiert. Neben den materiellen Folgeschäden sind es dabei insbesondere die Verletzung des kaufmännischen Prinzips von Treu und Glauben und die Verunsicherung des...
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We present results from a laboratory experiment identifying the main channels through which different law enforcement strategies deter organized economic crime. The absolute level of a fine has a strong deterrence effect, even when the exogenous probability of apprehension is zero. This effect...
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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
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This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …
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enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly …
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Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast … Organization laws on agriculture and farmers, the media’s spotlight on starvation deaths and, finally, the Supreme Court of India … situation prevailing in India and reviews the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure food security …
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measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
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This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the … phenomenon of skimming fraud significantly affect the number of debit card payments. The direction of the effect depends on the … type of skimming fraud addressed. Newspaper articles on fraud at points-of-sale (POS) and ticket machines depress the …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university …
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