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Khadjavi, Menusch - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …

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Interjurisdictional competition and the efficiency of the public sector: The triumph of the market over the state?

Rauscher, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

It has been argued in the literature that, interjurisdictional competition forces the public sector to increase its efficiency and thus helps to tame Leviathan governments. The paper addresses this hypothesis by means of a simple taxcompetition model with a Leviathan state. It is seen that the...

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Size effect, neighbour effect and peripheral effect in cross-border tax games

Liu, Xin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper analyses a game theoretic model of tax competition in a system where tax authorities are revenue optimisers and countries are differentiated by size. The model accommodates more than two countries. In equilibrium, larger countries set higher tax rates non-cooperatively. By applying...

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The impact of corruption on apprehension level of immigrants: A study of the United States immigration

Buzurukov, Bilol; Lee, Byeong Wan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country. The empirical research investigates the probability of individuals being apprehended overseas due to the influence of corrupt environment in their home countries. Using...

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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...

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The nature of corruption: An interdisciplinary perspective

Dimant, Eugen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to a massive trans-border threat while creating...

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Spurious middlemen in corrupt transactions

Bayar, Güzin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

To solve the corruption problem, its root causes should first be diagnosed and factors supporting it should be determined. One of the important facilitators of corrupt transactions are intermediaries, who make corrupt dealings less risky, thereby increasing corruption. Even worse, there are...

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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries

Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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The Positive Economics of Corporatism and Corporate Governance

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Two politicoeconomic equilibria arise from our model, one with little protection of insiders on capital and labor markets, and another one with...

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Do less-violent technologies result in less violence? A theoretical investigation applied to the use of tasers by law enforcement

McCannon, Bryan C. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The use of a taser by law enforcement can substitute for either a gun (a more-violent technology) or a mildly-violent technology (such as pepper spray or hands-on tactics). Which is used affects both the severity of harm when used and the amount of resistance, which affects how often it must be...

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