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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption

Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019

reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on … these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime … societies feature high levels of corruption and criminal activity. Surprisingly, our results allow for the interpretation that …

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Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law

Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016

, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …

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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall

Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020

39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...

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Saving Toby : Extortion, Blackmail, and the Right to Destroy

Sachs, Stephen E. - 2014

On the website SaveToby.com, one may find many endearing pictures of Toby, the cutest little bunny on the planet. Unfortunately, on June 30, 2005, the lovable Toby was scheduled to be butchered and eaten - unless the website's readers sent $50,000 to save his life.Though Toby's owner has since...

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Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector

Buscaglia, Edgardo A. - 2006

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil … corruption in the public sector in a large number of countries. The two types of complex crime reinforce each other. To identify … and isolate the influential factors behind the growth of corruption in the public sector and organized crime, the present …

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Leniency policies and illegal transactions

Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2005 - First version: October 1999, Final version: September 8, 2005

enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is …

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Populism and the return of the "paranoid style" : some evidence and a simple model of demand for incompetence as insurance against elite betrayal

Di Tella, Rafael; Rotemberg, Julio - 2016

We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice model yields a...

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Cash on trial, mk II : economics, technology and institutions

Birchler, Urs W. (ed., introduction); … - Cash on Trial <Veranstaltung> <2019, Frankfurt am Main>; … - 2019

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Global oil theft : impact and policy responses

Romsom, Etienne - 2022

This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. However, the impact of oil theft is...

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Countering global oil theft : responses and solutions

Romsom, Etienne - 2022

This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market...

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