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The Social Cost of Blackmail
Yerokhin, Oleg - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2011
Despite the fact that blackmail constitutes a voluntary transaction between two parties, it is deemed to be a criminal … offence in most legal systems. Traditional economic approach to this so-called ‘paradox of blackmail’ emphasizes welfare loss … case of blackmail? This paper addresses these questions in a simple model of bargaining under asymmetric information which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203498
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The Real Puzzle of Blackmail: An Informational Approach
Miceli, Thomas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2010
The "puzzle" of blackmail is that threats to reveal private information that would be harmful to someone in exchange … inclined to sell to uninformed parties, who value the information more than would-be blackmail victims. The answer has to do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552859
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A Theory of Abuse of Authority in Hierarchies
Vafaï, Kouroche - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999
This paper analyzes abuse of authority in a principal-supervisor-agent hierarchy under moral hazard. We characterize the optimal contracts when the supervisor takes advantage of his authority by blackmailing the agent. We show that the optimal policy for the principal is to deter abuse of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169018
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Threats Without Binding Commitment
Shavell, Steven; Spier, Kathryn - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 2 (2002) 1, pp. 1024-1024
This paper explores the power of threats in the absence of binding commitment. The threatener cannot commit to carry out the threat if the victim refuses payment, and cannot commit not to carry out the threat if payment is made. An important assumption of the model is that once the threat is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579701
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The Offense of Blackmail in the Criminal Law of the Republic of Moldova [Infractiunea de santaj in legea penala a Republicii Moldova]
BRINZA, Sergiu - In: Anuarul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi / … (2013) 12, pp. 95-118
In the present study is performed the analysis of the constituent and aggravating circumstantial elements to the offenses referred to at art.189 of the Penal Code of the Republic of Moldova. Article seeks to clarify some aspects less investigated of the offences in question. As a result of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735605
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The Social Cost of Blackmail
Yerokhin, Oleg - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2011
Despite the fact that blackmail constitutes a voluntary transaction between two parties, it is deemed to be a criminal … offence in most legal systems. Traditional economic approach to this so-called ‘paradox of blackmail’ emphasizes welfare loss … case of blackmail? This paper addresses these questions in a simple model of bargaining under asymmetric information which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371680
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Decentralised content moderation
Friedl, Paul; Morgan, Julian - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-11
Decentralised content moderation describes and potentially advocates for moderation infrastructures in which both the authority and the responsibility to moderate are distributed over a plurality of actors or institutions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014538867
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Copyright callouts and the promise of creator-driven platform governance
Hallinan, Blake; Reynolds, C. J.; Rothenstein, Omer - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-43
ignore fair use or serve ulterior motives like harassment, censorship, and financial extortion, as well as the challenges of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583563
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Platform lobbying: Policy influence strategies and the EU's Digital Services Act
Gorwa, Robert; Lechowski, Grzegorz; Schneiß, Daniel - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-26
This paper examines how platform companies seek to lobby and otherwise influence policymakers during heated regulatory episodes. While there has been some valuable recent work on different policy influence strategies deployed by platform firms, in particular the emerging use of "user-facing"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634489
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Copyright callouts and the promise of creator-driven platform governance
Hallinan, Blake; Reynolds, C. J.; Rothenstein, Omer - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-43
ignore fair use or serve ulterior motives like harassment, censorship, and financial extortion, as well as the challenges of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634491