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corruption increases along with risks associated with anti-bribery laws. This article examines recent developments related to the … Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which has undergone a dramatic rise in enforcement during recent years. As the world …
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corruption increases along with the increased risks associated with anti-bribery laws. Companies who employ citizens of the … has past since implementation, an assessment of this law's impact is presented. As the world continues to grow smaller and …
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39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...
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, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …
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Verständigung zwischen Juristen und Ökonomen beitragen. Seine zentrale These besteht darin, dass Korruption als ein Ordnungsproblem … between law and economics. It claims that corruption is to be perceived as a constitutional problem of the economy and that …
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to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …
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Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry, funded almost exclusively by Medicare, run by for-profit corporations answering to private equity investors and Wall Street, and more and more frequently plagued by fraud and...
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The commitment of governments, international organizations and enterprises to combatting corruption appears to have … of a “Two Swords, On Thrust Strategy” as a supplemental approach to the enforcement of anti-corruption rules and norms …. The Two Swords-One Thrust Strategy combines the power of state officials to exercise discretion in managing anti-corruption …
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The paper examines the leniency program in the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law, from acomparative and empirical … adopted in foreign legal systems since 1978. The recently adopted leniencyprogram in Brazilian anti-corruption law (Law No. 12 … in order to enable the effective fight against corruption …
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Greece had, largely as a result of clientele policies, delayed its privatization of the state-owned telecommunications operator, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) and the liberalization of markets. For over a decade up to 2004 Siemens paid bribes to managers of OTE, to senior...
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