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Cybercrime is typically profiled as a skill-intensive crime committed by educated, young criminals. This observation … investigation, it is shown that electronic skills induce more cybercrime under weak institutions where the rules of law do not … institutions suggests that institutional factors are crucial to allocating human capital between productive and criminal activities …
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This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process … political institutions are associated with a higher propensity to use alternative means for expressing preferences, that is, to …
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to be countervailing forces, and will both occur in polities with weaker political institutions. …
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This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process … political institutions are associated with a higher propensity to use alternative means for expressing preferences, that is, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247932
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …
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We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes taxpayers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only...
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We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes taxpayers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894106
Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly overlooked: the swiftness of formal sanctions. We...
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variables, and the direction of the causality are considered unidirectional and from institutions to the entrepreneurship … causality between institutions and entrepreneurship regarding to the level of economic development (Factor-driven, Efficiency … institutions and entrepreneurship is confirmed only in the innovation-driven countries, and only in the long-run. …
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Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly overlooked: the swiftness of formal sanctions. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438420