Social interactions provide a set of incentives for regulating individual behavior. Chief among these is stigma, the status loss and discrimination that results from the display of stigmatized attributes or behaviors. The stigmatization of behavior is the enforcement mechanism behind social...

This paper analyses the relationship between regular and irregular migration taking into account the migration network effect and the network creation mechanism. We assume that migrants can obtain a high payoff only if a critical mass of migrants is reached in the destination country. If...

This work is an entry for the second edition of Sage's Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. It explains the nature of the problems of corruption and, more specifically, extortion and their ethical implications. The entry also compares and contrasts extortion and bribery, the two main...