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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Bribery"”.
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Estimating the effects of foreign bribery legislation in the international economy
Foreign bribery - the payment of bribes across borders - poses a classic collective action problem in theory. A firm may extract benefits through the payment of bribes to foreign public officials without its own country bearing the associated costs of governmental corruption, and hence while …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics : Bribery Solicitation, Pity System and Information Avoidance
… include three parts analyzing the effect of bribery solicitation, the effect of pity System and the effect of meat consumption on information avoidance. The first chapter is the analysis of the effect of bribery solicitation on behavior change. Bribe solicitation is a critical but overlooked …
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Systemic Corruption: A Multi-Theoretic, Multi-Level and Mixed Methods Analysis of the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Strategic Agency and Reward Expectancy
… the demand-side orthodoxy to examine supply-side bribery - those who pay bribes. It aims a novel lens at three discrete but interrelated levels of corruption praxis - individual, firm and industry - to understand why and how bribery is enacted and routinized as the way of doing business in SSA. …
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Papirkimo sudėties analizė /
… is devoted for criminal legal evaluation of bribery crime. It forms the biggest part of the Master’s theses. In this chapter the bribery crime consolidated in CC Article 227 has been analyzed. The analysis of the article is presented following the traditional model: object, objective side, …
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Essays on the cause and consequences of market distortions
In contrast to past literature on competitive bribery, the thesis demonstrates that competitive bribery for rents generated from market distortions is inefficient. However, self enriching policy makers have incentives for implementing these distortions in order to maximize the appropriation of …
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Three Essays on Anti-Corruption Legislation and Reform
… suggests that the elements of active and passive bribery are largely part of penal codes, in stark contrast to voluntary disclosure programs. Less than half of the 56 countries make use of this instrument, and even only three do so for passive bribery. The cross-section analysis therefore shows …
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Essays in Law and Economics
… and an empirical paper on a cooperative game of bribery.</p>
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Connections and Privileged Access: Essays on The Political Economy of Corruption
… exchanges among socially connected individuals. Bribery, as a collusive arrangement between a citizen and a public official, relies on the same enforcement mechanisms. Using an original dataset from a household survey conducted in Guatemala, the analysis shows that social proximity and centrality …
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Essays on Corruption and Enforcement
… in which the principal optimally allows bribery to occur due to the potential for extortion. This result mirrors the moral hazard model of Khalil, Lawarrée and Yun (2010). I introduce a probability that the agent is “honest” in that she cannot lie or engage in corruption. Because the …
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Three essays on the economics of corruption
… the private sector. The third essay presents a bribery-bidding game with multiple corrupt bureaucrats and a private firm to analyze the corruption in entry regulation. The first essay presents a game that incorporates these features of the defense procurement process. The results of the analysis …
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Essays in development economics and finance
… firms of the OECD "Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions". I compare the balance sheet performance of foreign companies in 24 developing host countries whose source countries have implemented the convention with the performance of …
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Perceptions of Sexual Activity from Staff and Youth in a State Juvenile Facility
… sex, sexual jokes, gestures, and touches, bribery for sexual acts and sex by force in which the victim was received minor injuries, serious injuries, or death. Using statistical tools and tests such as frequency distributions, Cronbach’s alpha reliability test, and Chi-Square to test for …
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Nuances of corruption and foreign direct investment
… can take a short or long-term approach to bribery. Third, corruption can be either organized or disorganized. Finally, we examine if a lower corruption rating of a host country, relative to neighboring potential recipients of foreign Direct Investment, influences foreign investors. …
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Proof-of-stake longest chain protocols: security vs predicability
… predictability, subjecting the system to serious bribery attacks. In this thesis, we prove that a natural longest chain PoS protocol with predictability similar to that of Nakamoto’s PoW protocol can achieve security against any adversary with less than 1/(1 +e) fraction of the total stake. …
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Performance optimization of a split-value voting system
… by corrupt election officials and rampant bribery. In this thesis, we review the cryptographic techniques available for designing a secure election system and introduce a system designed around a verifiable mixnet using split-value commitments. The main work done in this thesis is a series …
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Essays on infrastructure, trade, and politics in Developing Countries
… to the debate on laws against foreign bribery. When governments pass laws to prevent their businesspeople from bribing foreign officials, how does this affect patterns of trade and foreign investment? A literature focusing on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention claims that these laws …
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PERSONALITY AND ETHICAL DECISION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
… Age was a significant predictor for a bribery scenario and a partially significant predictor for the personal income tax evasion scenario. The results suggest that personality traits can act as significant predictors for the justification of moral acts in specific situations, but the …
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Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
… manipulation of land-values, double-voting and bribery provided avenues through which laws governing the right to vote were transcended during elections. Through this thesis, I show how both residents and officials used such mechanisms to reshape the function and meaning of the franchise. I also …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with …
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