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Filippas, Apostolos - 2018

. We show that this “reputation inflation” is the equilibrium outcome of a model in which (a) inferences made by future …

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Does Tax Evasion Affect Economic Crime?

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2018

crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …

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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School

Cohn, Alain - 2017

Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three...

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Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2021

We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...

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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance transmission channel. At the theoretical level, we develop a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which financial intermediaries make portfolio decisions on behalf of...

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Disguising Lies - Image Concerns and Partial Lying in Cheating Games

Khalmetski, Kiryl - 2019

We study equilibrium reporting behavior in Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013)-type cheating games when agents have a fixed cost of lying and image concerns not to be perceived as a liar. We show that equilibria naturally arise in which agents with low costs of lying randomize among a set of...

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Firm Reputation and Incentives to 'Milk' Pending Patents

Koenen, Johannes - 2015

In this paper we develop a theory of patenting in which a firm preserves its reputation to only apply for a patent … reputation to be preserved in equilibrium and analyze which market environments are favorable for such an equilibrium to exist …

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Modeling Fluctuations in the Global Demand for Commodities

Kilian, Lutz - 2018

It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...

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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino - 2013

Anti-money laundering regulations have been centred on the “Know-Your-Customer” rule so far, overlooking the fact that criminal proceedings that need to be laundered are usually represented by cash. This is the first study which tries to provide an answer to the question of how much of cash...

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Tax Evasion and Economic Crime. Empirical Evidence for Italy

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2015

affected by tax evasion. Interestingly, the degree of substitution for fraud and usury is related to the size of tax burden …

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