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Cybercrime is typically profiled as a skill-intensive crime committed by educated, young criminals. This observation … investigation, it is shown that electronic skills induce more cybercrime under weak institutions where the rules of law do not … institutions suggests that institutional factors are crucial to allocating human capital between productive and criminal activities …
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to be countervailing forces, and will both occur in polities with weaker political institutions. …
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This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process … political institutions are associated with a higher propensity to use alternative means for expressing preferences, that is, to …
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This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process … political institutions are associated with a higher propensity to use alternative means for expressing preferences, that is, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133918
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …
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that strong rule of law institutions may ameliorate the possible adverse effects of political and economic crises on … heterogeneous effects depending on the type of crisis and how we measure it. We find that rule of law institutions can control …
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Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly overlooked: the swiftness of formal sanctions. We...
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We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes taxpayers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only...
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We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes taxpayers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894106
This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a...
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