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There is an identifiable and distinct body of law and administrative regulations on state enterprise governance, anticorruption and public sector ethics emerging in the Commonwealth Caribbean. The law and administrative structures are still developing but they are sufficiently well developed to...
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This article is the first that discusses how national enforcement authorities have been using bundling, meaning tying or rolling up a number of things together, to settle with corporations over multiple bribery allegations. These settlements rely on some allegedly illegal acts that defendants...
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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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to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …
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We analyze corruption in law enforcement: the payment of bribes to enforcement agents, threats to frame innocent …, extortion should not be sanctioned. The state may also combat corruption by paying rewards to enforcement agents for reporting …
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Corruption, while reflecting (and often reinforcing) broad, even systemic, institutional deficiencies within societies … cognitive and social conditions impact individuals’ decisions to engage in corruption, considering how anticorruption …-specific approaches to fight corruption, emphasizing that the impacts of reform programs will hinge decisively on the nature, character …
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Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …
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In this paper we model cartel duration as a mixed proportional hazard model and condition on cartel characteristics such as the agency first detecting the cartel, industry, if it is a bid rigging or price fixing cartel, the number of countries affected, the affected sales, and measures of the...
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For criminal violations of the Sherman Act, although guided by federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. Department of Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly always determinative. In this paper, we analyze the...
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