details of the power structure are irrelevant for the existence of equilibria with enforcement provided that enough agents are … just raw power that allows a more powerful agent to expropriate a less powerful one? We study a model where expropriation …

enforcement push the economy towards anarchy, a Pareto-dominated equilibrium. Vice versa, if the assets' value and the cost of … asset-stripping are high, this is instrumental to a rule of law enforcement, a Pareto-dominant equilibrium. High … institutional quality can increase the likelihood of rule of law enforcement if there is enough information about the strength of …

Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual … enforcement (conviction rates) and enforcing institutions. Results based on data for more than 80 countries show that piecemeal …

compliance studies, the management approach and the enforcement approach, this paper argues that with the exception of Rule of …

Findings of cross-cultural psychology suggest that different approaches to rule enforcement have cultural roots … allows discretionary rule enforcement, which, in turn, is recognized as an obstacle to sustained increases in productive long …-term investment in developing countries. This paper presents a model that offers a unified framework to explain rule enforcement as …

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power …

to the global game approach. On the one hand, this model predicts that high uncertainty and sunk costs in law enforcement …

Rechtsstaat beleuchtet. Es zeigt sich: Betroffene Unternehmen weichen dem Divestment-Druck aus. Kritische Assets werden in …