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Counter-Cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law
Aviram, Amitai - 2007
result, they insufficiently police the agents during booms and excessively do so during busts. Conspicuous law enforcement … prosecutors face, as well as their failure to consider law enforcement's effect on principals' perceptions, result in enforcement …
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Drivers of the underground economy around the millienium : a long term look for the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
This paper provides a long term analysis of the determinants of the shadow economy. Using data for the United States over the years 1870–2014 we examine economic and political factors driving the underground sector. Results show that among the economic factors, greater economic prosperity...
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The impact of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States
Brown, Dan; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2018
We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county level. We use a new administrative dataset containing every report of child abuse and neglect made to the Child Protective Services, and identify the effect using a Bartik...
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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals
Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014
Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...
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The evolution of arrears among US households 1995-2013
Grant, Charles B. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 2/43, pp. 1-40
This paper looks at arrears among US households between 1995 and 2013. It uses household data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) where arrears occur when a household reports it “sometimes got behind or missed a payment”. The key contribution is that it decomposes the change in...
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A Note on Death Penalty Executions and Business Cycles in U.S. Federal States : Is There Any Nexus?
Süssmuth, Bernd - 2004
1950 to 1990 with the exception of two states: For Louisiana and Utah a significant countercyclical enforcement is found. A …
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Network Cycles and Welfare
Talamàs, Eduard - 2017
In a wide variety of social settings (e.g. crime, education, political activism, technology adoption), players' returns to their efforts depend on how much effort others exert. Modeling these situations as a network game with strategic complementarities, we show that a player's cycle centrality...
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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict
Gehring, Kai - 2019
We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal … prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in Afghanistan. There are two main mechanisms. First, household living …
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Real exchange rate misalignment and business cycle fluctuations in Asia and the Pacific
Ambaw, Dessie Tarko; Pundit, Madhavi; Ramayandi, Arief; … - 2022
Real exchange rate (RER) misalignment, which is the deviation between the actual real exchange rate from its equilibrium, occurs frequently among developing economies. Studies have shown that RER misalignment may have negative economic implications, such as a reduction in economic growth,...
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Stimulant or Depressant? : Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict
Gehring, Kai - 2020
We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict, focusing specifically on … illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group competition over resources and the extent of law enforcement explain …, and reduce conflict. Using georeferenced data on the drug production network and Taliban versus pro-government control …
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