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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Viveiros, Igor - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679929
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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684794
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Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …
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No sólo de mercado vive la democracia. El fenómeno del (in)cumplimiento al derecho y su relación con el desarrollo, la justicia y la democracia
Villegas, Mauricio García - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 6 (2004) January-June, pp. 95-134
between these two visions and their implications in the justice system and the social law: even though both visions are … perception of the legitimacy of the institutions. Market and the democracy are both equally essential for the existence of a Rule …
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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries: What do we (not) know?
Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2012
For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877780
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The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments
Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This survey presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses and the estimation results. The purpose of the survey is threefold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884126
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How to Reduce Violent Pressure on Business in Russia?
A. Yakovlev. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 11 (2012)
The paper considers the factors explaining violent pressure of law enforcement agencies on businessmen in Russia in recent years. This phenomenon has been analyzed from the viewpoint of "destructive entrepreneurship" concept (Baumol, 1990) and "limited access order" framework (North et al.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007745
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Government size, market-orientation and regional corruption: Evidence from the provincial level panel data
ZHOU Li¡¯an; Jing, TAO - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 4 (2009) 3, pp. 425-448
Using a panel data at the provincial level during the period of 1989–2004, this paper examines the effects of social and economic factors such as government scale, privatization, openness, and education on regional corruption. Applying a fixed-effect model and IV estimation, we find that...
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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?
Weber Abramo, Claudio - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008), pp. 1-56
Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In contrast, perceptions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082943
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The Impact of the Judiciary on Entrepreneurship: Evaluation of Pakistan's Access to Justice Programme
Chemin, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007
A key element of government is to uphold law and order. This paper will evaluate the impact of slow judiciaries on entrepreneurship. In 2002 a judicial reform was implemented in 6 of Pakistan's 117 districts to facilitate rapid case disposal. Drawing on a panel dataset of 875 district judges'...
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