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Corruption and Political Interest: Empirical Evidence at the Micro Level
Torgler, Benno; Dong, Bin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …
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An Experimental Bribery Game
Abbink, Klaus; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Renner, Elke - University of Bonn, Germany - 1999
Essential characteristics of corruption are (1) a reciprocity relationship between briber and public official, (2 … negative externalities have no apparent effect. The penalty threat significantly reduces corruption, although discovery …
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Fair Salaries and the Moral Costs of Corruption
Abbink, Klaus - University of Bonn, Germany - 2000
In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well-paid public officials less corruptible. Corrupt decisions impose damages to workers whose wage is varied in two treatments. However, there is no apparent difference in behaviour.
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Estimation of Panel Data Models with Interactive Effects and Multiple Structural Breaks When T Is Fixed
Kaddoura, Yousef; Westerlund, Joakim - 2021
In this article, we propose a new estimator of panel data models with interactive fixed effects and multiple structural breaks that is suitable when the number of time periods, T, is fixed and only the number of cross-sectional units, N, is large. This is done by viewing the determination of the...
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Does the Burglar Also Disturb the Neighbor? Crime Spillovers on Individual Well-being
Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015
Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475133
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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? Crime spillovers on individual well-being
Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015
Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500145
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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? : crime spillovers on individual well-being
Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015
Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474230
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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? : crime spillovers on individual well-being
Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015
Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487160
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Understanding the Determinants of Property and Violent Crime in England and Wales : A Panel Data Analysis
Han, Lu - 2011
We examine various determinants of property and violent crimes by using police force area level (PFA) data on England and Wales over the period 1992-2008. Our list of potential determinants includes two law enforcement variables namely crime-specific detection rate and prison population, and...
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America's deadly export: Evidence from cross-country panel data of deportation and homicide rates
Blake, Garfield O. - In: International Review of Law and Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 156-168
Changes in US Immigration laws between the mid-1980s to the late 1990s led to a sharp increase in criminal deportations. During the same years many poor countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, experienced a sharp increase in homicides. Using panel data for a sample of 38...
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