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The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony of-fenders committed on or after January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislationon reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In particular, structuraltime series models are...
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The paper examines in the laboratory how risk-taking situations are affected by the conditions of observing other's choices (observer) and being observed by others (source). By extending Yechiam et al.'s (2008) experimental design to the domain of gains we find that observers are more probable...
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The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite index with a focus on cross …
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Corruption defined as the misuse of public power for personal gains is a forefront issue around the world, especially … in developing countries. This paper mainly assumes that corruption has negative effects on government revenues both in … results, in general, confirm the hypotheses we assume except for those associate corruption with income tax revenues (INCTR …
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Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption … democracy affect costs and benefits of engaging in corruption and, therefore, the level of corruption overall. Whereas other … studies examine only how democratic accountability imposes costs on those engaging in corruption and thus illuminate only the …
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