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Global oil theft : impact and policy responses

Romsom, Etienne - 2022

This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. However, the impact of oil theft is...

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Building the evidence for OECD integrity and anticorruption agenda : the current situation and avenues for future analysis

Smidova, Zuzana - 2020

Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …

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Exposition to corruption and political participation : evidence from Italian municipalities

Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …

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Corruption and crisis : do institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2022

about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …

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Countering global oil theft : responses and solutions

Romsom, Etienne - 2022

This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market...

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Illicit shadows : an economic analysis of trade gaps in cultural goods through the Italian market

Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023

corruption and adoption of protective legislation (UNESCO and UNIDROIT) and discuss results indicating further questions to be …

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Unraveling the paradox of anticorruption messaging : experimental evidence from a tax administration reform

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Ardanaz, Martin; Cruces, Guillermo; … - 2024

Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption …, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens … combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an …

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Extractive industries: addressing transparency, corruption, and theft

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2024

governance that sometimes leads to resources being used for private rather than public benefit. It discusses the corruption that …, not least in improving the information base. Although corruption and theft may never be fully eliminated, they can …

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Optimal leniency programs

Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2000

Leniency programmes reduce sanctions for law violators that self-report. We focus on their ability to deter cartels and organised crime in general by increasing incentives to "cheat" on partners. Moderate leniency programmes that reduce/cancel sanctions for the reporting party cannot affect...

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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment

Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002

This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract...

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