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Leniency policies and illegal transactions
Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2005 - First version: October 1999, Final version: September 8, 2005
enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is …
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Countering global oil theft : responses and solutions
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market...
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Global oil theft : impact and policy responses
Romsom, Etienne - 2022
This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. However, the impact of oil theft is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816265
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Crime and conflicts in Africa : consequences of corruption?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2013
With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410031
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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption
Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019
reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on … these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime … societies feature high levels of corruption and criminal activity. Surprisingly, our results allow for the interpretation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902058
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Crime and Conflicts in Africa : Consequences of Corruption?
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032567
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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall
Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020
39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...
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Crime and violence : desensitization in victims to watching criminal events
Di Tella, Rafael; Freira, Lucía; Gálvez, Ramiro H.; … - 2017
We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated participants watch a series...
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Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law
Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016
, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775869
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Economic Aspects of the Complementarity between Corruption and Crime : Evidence from Italy in the Period 1996-2005
Caruso, Raul; Baronchelli, Adelaide - 2013
This paper empirically investigates the connection between corruption and crime. Such linkage has been often … underestimated because corruption has been often analyzed as a white-collar crime. In fact it is not characterized by violence …. Recently a theoretical connection has been suggested to highlight that corruption and crime can be considered strategic …
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