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of prosecutorial corruption. For police officers, we find that prosecutorial independence is not decisive, but … prosecutorial corruption matters for whether suspected misconduct is likely to be prosecuted. …
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this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall …Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In …
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to disband the "pact of silence" characteristic of corrupt arrangements. -- Corruption ; Asymmetric Sanctions …
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This paper aims to study corruption as an epidemic phenomenon using the epidemic diffusion model of Kermack and Mc …-Kendrick (1927). We seek to determine the dynamics of corruption and its impact on the composition of the population at a given time …. We determine a threshold epidemiological corruption based on the approximation of the honest population. -- Corruption …
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-givers should be punished for giving bribes, but not for accepting the bribetakers' reciprocity. -- corruption ; asymmetric …
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corruption does not improve the sorting of types but it negatively affects the agent’s incentive to be corrupt …
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authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always … authorized. In contrast, corruption can be socially beneficial under strict authorization, since it can mitigate an over …
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authorization and strict authorization. We find that corruption plays a critical role in the choice of the authorization regime …. Corruption exacerbates the costs of using lenient authorization, under which production of socially harmful goods is always … authorized. In contrast, corruption can be socially beneficial under strict authorization, since it can mitigate an over …
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This paper analyzes the optimal allocation of antibribery resources when bribery type is endogenously determined by corrupt bureaucrats. A firm is supposed to invest to get licenses for production from bureaucrats. The bureaucrat commits to a bribes schedule that specifies bribes demanded from...
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Social Survey. Consistent with the theory, particularism is found to have a positive causal effect on the probability of … at favoring universalism may provide an effective tool in the fight against corruption …
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