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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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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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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that 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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Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making : an experimental analysis

Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert; Miettinen, Topi - 2016

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017

Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...

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On monetary and non-monetary interventions to combat corruption

Banerjee, Ritwik; Mitra, Arnab - 2017

-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low … probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability of detection with low …

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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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How does petty corruption affect tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa? : an empirical analysis

Jahnke, Björn - 2017

analyse how petty corruption erodes tax morale. A mediation analysis shows that petty corruption directly reduces tax morale … severe in countries and regions where fewer people are affected by petty corruption and becomes insignificant if extortion of …

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Money laundering and corruption : birds of a feather flock together

Barone, Raffaella; Masciandaro, Donato; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

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