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...

Ausgewählte gesetzliche Regelungen und Richtlinienentwürfe zum Whistleblowing bei öffentlich gehandelten Unternehmen -- Literaturüberblick – die Whistleblowing-Intention und ihre Förderung -- Über den Abschreckungseffekt des Whistleblowings – die Beeinflussung der...

Corporate Governance has become a key aspect in companies’ management. Regulatory authorities have been continuously taking several series of actions to ensure adequate corporate governance, especially in public limited and listed companies. I observe that despite several compliance...

Tests for “effective” compliance programs take the form of lists specifying required elements in varying level of detail. From an economic perspective, an effective compliance program can be defined more fundamentally as the set of policies and procedures that a rational, profit-maximizing...

Focusing on collusive behavior, this chapter outlines the complexity associated with both the ex ante design of antitrust compliance programs and the ex post assessment of their impact. Following an interdisciplinary review of relevant literature, the chapter provides a structured cost–benefit...

Previous studies have primarily focused on a hybrid policy of emission regulation that included an emission cap and permit price ceiling in a single period model, we extend this literature by developing such an optimal hybrid model in a multi-period framework where banking and borrowing of...

Durch die Förderung von Whistleblowing im Unternehmensumfeld erhofft man sich unter anderem die Aufdeckung von Straftaten und die Abschreckung potenzieller Täter. Die dafür verwendeten Maßnahmen umfassen die Einrichtung unternehmensinterner anonymer Meldemöglichkeiten, Vergeltungsverbote,...