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Allegations of voter fraud accompany many real-world elections. How does electoral malpractice affect the acceptance of elected institutions? Using an online experiment in which people distribute income according to majority-elected rules, we show that those who experience vote buying or voter...
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study corruption and the role of institutions and monitoring agencies when corruption takes place in a network structure. I … institutions and monitoring agencies to complement each other to prevent more effectively the act of corruption. I find that the … agencies can discourage corruption from the beginning …
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We present controlled experimental evidence on how corruption affects the private provision of public goods. Subjects … subjects. We compare average contributions between two conditions with the same efficiency: a corruption condition, where an … administrator can expropriate part of contributions, and a control condition without corruption. Compared to the control condition …
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In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model … corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the … eradication of corruption as the final goal. We propose an alternative approach which emphasizes why corruption arises in the …
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corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption …
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corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption …
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Verständigung zwischen Juristen und Ökonomen beitragen. Seine zentrale These besteht darin, dass Korruption als ein Ordnungsproblem … between law and economics. It claims that corruption is to be perceived as a constitutional problem of the economy and that …
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Why do committees exist? The extant literature emphasizes that they pool dispersed information across members. In this paper, we argue that they may also serve to discourage outside influence or capture by raising its cost. As such, committees may contain members who add no new information to...
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We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960–2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …
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Corruption is something of a conundrum to economists. Whilst clearly being economic in its nature and principle … conscientious in their provision of essential services supporting the economy causes obvious problems for judgements on corruption … issues. This paper reviews the impacts of corruption, the range of attempted explanations of corruption that economics has …
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