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Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade
McCully, Brett - 2021
universe of large illegal drug confiscations in Spain to provide the first causal estimates of how immigrants and immigration …
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Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade
McCully, Brett - 2021
immigrants and immigration policy affect the pattern and scale of illegal drug trafficking. To identify the causal effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015262372
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Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade
McCully, Brett - 2021
immigrants and immigration policy affect the pattern and scale of illegal drug trafficking. To identify the causal effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015253588
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Pretextual Traffic Stops and Racial Disparities in their Use.
Makofske, Matthew - 2020
Moving-violation traffic stops are pretextual when motivated by suspicion of unrelated crimes. Despite concerns that they are subject to racial bias, and recent reforms hoping to curb the practice; we lack empirical evidence to inform our understanding of pretextual stops. Using a decade's worth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213494
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Water Theft As Social Insurance: Southeastern Spain, 1851-1948
Donna, Javier; Espin Sanchez, Jose - 2019
We investigate the roles of individual characteristics and punishment progressivity on crime. Our analysis reconciles … low crime rates with light punishments in self-governed communities (Ostrom, 1990), using formal punishments to deter … crime (Becker, 1968). We use a novel trial dataset on water stealing from a self-governed community in Mula, Spain. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213505
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Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely?: A Political Agency Theoretic Approach
Banerjee, Swapnendu; Saha, Soumyarup - 2024
We explore a power relationship between a ‘corrupt’ politician and a political worker where the politician can order an illegal corrupt effort to be performed by the worker. Using a moral hazard structure we show that when the politician’s power is sufficiently high the politician...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213543
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Money laundering and tax evasion : Do international measures have a significant impact in sub-Saharan Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for a third of the countries on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. In the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) Ranking and Risk Assessment Tool, the region performed poorly in terms of resilience to ML/TF, with more than 60% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213679
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Les mesures internationales contre le blanchiment d’argent et l’évasion fiscale, ont-elles un impact significatif en Afrique subsaharienne ?
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for a third of the countries on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. In the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) Ranking and Risk Assessment Tool, the region performed poorly in terms of resilience to ML/TF, with more than 60% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213680
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Въпроси относно учебната дисциплина „Правен режим на защита от дискриминация“
Стайков, Ивайло - 2024
Резюме: Предмет на анализ е нововъведената от 2022 г. избираема учебна дисциплина „Правен режим на защита от дискриминация“, която трябва да се изучава в...
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Structural Presumptions for Non-horizontal Mergers in the 2023 Merger Guidelines: A Primer and a Path Forward
Donna, Javier; Pereira, Pedro - 2024
The 2023 Merger Guidelines (MGs) change the Agencies’ narrative regarding non-horizontal mergers. They follow a four-pronged approach: (1) They blend horizontal and non-horizontal mergers. (2) They simplify the narrative about non-horizontal mergers. (3) They consoli- date and broaden the...
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