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Conference on Corruption and Anti‐Corruption Policies
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development together with the International Economic Association, Kyiv School of Ec…
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Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed Through Cryptocurrencies?
Using novel approaches that exploit the blockchain to identify illegal activity, we estimate that around $76 billion of…
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Money Laundering: Regulatory or Political Capture?
Danske Bank has recently been accused of having laundered more than 200 billion Euros through its Estonian branch. The s…
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Managing Relational Contracts
A wide range of important economic activities depend on self-enforcing informal “relational” contracts. For instance, a…
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Whistleblower Protections but no Rewards: EU Commission Proposes a New Directive
On the 17th of April 2018 the European Commission adopted a package of measures to increase protections for whistleblowe…
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Avoiding Corruption and Tax Evasion in Belarus’ Construction Sector
This brief summarizes our research on the problem of corruption and tax evasion in the construction sector in Belarus. W…
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Rewarding Whistleblowers to Fight Corruption?
Whistleblower reward programs, or “bounty regimes”, provide financial incentives to witnesses that report information on…
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Expanding Leniency to Fight Collusion and Corruption
Leniency policies offering immunity to the first cartel member that blows the whistle and self-reports to the antitrust…
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The Issue of Repeat Cartel Offences
Leniency policies have become an important antitrust tool but it is not clear whether they have effectively prevented re…
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