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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news
Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018
corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …
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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news
Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018
corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059361
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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news
Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 163 (2019), pp. 140-157
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Fiscal Decentralization in Weak Institutional Environments : Evidence from Southern Italy
Beraldo, Sergio - 2012
gap by considering the municipalities belonging to three provinces in Southern Italy and proxying the presence of a weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105967
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Money laundering as a financial sector crime : a new approach to measurement, with an application to Italy
Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - 2013
criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707557
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Life is Now! Time Preferences and Crime : Aggregate Evidence from the Italian Regions
Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - 2013
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affects their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153493
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Life is Now! Time Discounting and Crime : Evidence from the Italian Regions (2002-2007)
Beraldo, Sergio; Caruso, Raul; Turati, Gilberto - 2011
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis (1988), whose theoretical analysis suggests that individuals’ attitude towards the future significantly affect their propensity to commit crime. Our empirical analysis is based on a panel of Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176020
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Measuring the Underground Economy with the Currency Demand Approach : A Reinterpretation of the Methodology, with an Application to Italy
Ardizzi, Guerino - 2012
We contribute to the debate on how to assess the size of the underground or shadow economy with a reinterpretation of the traditional Currency Demand Approach (CDA) à la Tanzi. We introduce three main innovations. First, we take as dependent variable in the money demand equation a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106588
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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy
Ardizzi, Guerino - 2013
criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086037
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Stop Invasion! The Electoral Tipping Point in Anti-Immigrant Voting
Bordignon, Massimo - 2019
Why do anti-immigrant political parties have more success in areas that host fewer immigrants? Using regression discontinuity design, structural breaks search methods and data from a sample of Italian municipalities, we show that the relationship between the vote shares of anti-immigrant parties...
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