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The effects of leniency on illegal transactions: How (not) to fight corruption
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2001
enforcers - on corruption, drug dealing, and other forms of sequential, bilateral, illegal trade. We find that when not properly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281225
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Myths and Numbers on Whistleblower Rewards
Nyreröd, Theo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2018
Whistleblower rewards have been used extensively in the US to limit procurement fraud and tax evasion, and their use has been extended to fight financial fraud after the recent financial crisis. In Europe there is currently a debate on their possible introduction, but authorities appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110671
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Trust, Salience and Deterrence: Evidence from an Antitrust Experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloe; … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320242
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Corruption within a cooperative society
Kosfeld, Michael - 1997
In this paper we take up a model of Okada (1996) to describe the possibility of collective cooperation in a n-person Prisoner's Dilemma game by means of institutional arrangements. In addition, we introduce the possibility to corrupt the institutional authority by paying him some positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291754
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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291803
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Petty corruption: A game-theoretic approach
Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Majumdar, Mukul; Radner, Roy - 2008
The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292052
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Do Clean Hands ensure healthy growth? Theory and practice in the battle against corruption
Coppier, Raffaella; Costantini, Mauro; Piga, Gustavo - 2009
This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293997
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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy
Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294508
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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294540
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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: A panel analysis
Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294548