Mehr als 2,45 Millionen Menschen sind laut den Vereinten Nationen Opfer von Menschenhandel, die Dunkelziffer ist hoch. Viele Staaten haben deshalb ihre Bemühungen verstärkt, gegen Menschenhandel vorzugehen und den Opfern zu helfen. Das DIW Berlin hat nun den 3P-Index, der die staatlichen...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the anti-crime program Comuna Segura: Compromiso 100 had on the reporting rate of different types of crimes. This program, implemented in Chile starting in 2001, was very highly criticized and, therefore, was eliminated in 2006. This paper...

The issue of effective management accounting systems, and especially the resource allocation procedures, have attracted considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several universities adopt different approaches to the...

Commercial banks are typical hierarchical organizations, in which the multipleprincipal-agent problem exists and induces serious internal collusive corruption. This article analyzes the collusive corruption between credit supervisors and credit managers in bank credit activities, through three...

The determinants of corruption have been debated by economists and non-economists for the past few decades. However, no consensus has been reached about the exact determinants of corruption and as well the direction of the effect of some the known key variables used in corruption studies. Most...

This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of ‘administrative corruption’, whereby firms engage in corrupt...

This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...