Purpose – The aim of this paper is to perform an evaluation of the Brazilian informal labor market, following the lines suggested by Araujo and Souza. The paper focuses on the Brazilian labor market by using data from the National Household Sampling Survey – PNAD/IBGE, from 1995 to 2008....

Purpose – An important question about the determinants of suicide refers to the role of media. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if there are groups of people who are susceptible to suicide as a result of the effect of media. Design/methodology/approach – Using...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to approach the issue of fraud prevention by using the theory of incentives to design a mechanism that makes employees to reveal their true type, that is, their willingness or ability to combat corruption. Based on this information, the manager may...

Presents a basic model by which a representative agent chooses how to allocate his savings optimally between money of legal origin and dirty money; he holds the laundered dirty money, from which the money laundering process generates a positive transaction cost. Analyses the welfare of such an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of terrorist actions and money laundering on capital accumulation and consumption. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds a general equilibrium model that considers the existence of two representative agents: a terrorist and...

Purpose – To assess the efficiency of the anti‐money laundering regulation by using an incentive‐based approach. Design/methodology/approach – It is designed a mechanism in which competent authority is the principal and the financial institutions are the agents. Findings – The analysis...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that an evolutionary approach to combat money laundering can shed new lights on this matter. Design/methodology/approach – An evolutionary game between financial institutions and employees is assumed in which the decisions of the banks and...