Purpose With sanctions becoming an increasingly important tool in ostracising autocratic regimes from western markets, the need for effective enforcement of and anti-money laundering (AML) is increasing, global AML regime will be backbone to detecting evasion sanctions. This regime, however, has been widely criticised as ineffective. paper aims discuss issues with current sanctions/AML propose ...

The phenomenon of online loans in Indonesia is becoming increasingly prevalent, accompanied by the proliferation loan provider services. However, this growth has also led to numerous instances fraudulent practices within lending sector. This study aims analyze effectiveness law enforcement and victim protection cases illegal comparing relevant laws regulations. findings reveal that have severe ...

Item Response Theory (IRT) is a class of measurement models that offers a variety of methods, not only to measure latent properties, but also to assess and improve the quality of such measurement. The attractive properties of IRT models, however, can only be derived when the rather restrictive assumptions of the model hold for the data being considered. Lenient researchers will argue that the m...

This research examines the multiple effects of racial diversity on group decision making. Participants deliberated on the trial of a Black defendant as members of racially homogeneous or heterogeneous mock juries. Half of the groups were exposed to pretrial jury selection questions about racism and half were not. Deliberation analyses supported the prediction that diverse groups would exchange ...

This paper considers the ‘failing firm defence’. Under this principle, found in most antitrust jurisdictions, a merger that would otherwise be blocked due to its adverse effect on competition is permitted when the firm to be acquired is a failing firm, and an alternative, less detrimental merger is unavailable. Competition authorities have shown considerable reluctance to accept the failing fir...

This article reviews research indicating that, under appropriate conditions, students' evaluations of teaching (SETs) are (a) multidimensional; (b) reliable and stable; (c) primarily a function of the instructor who teaches a course rather than the course that is taught; (d) relatively valid against a variety of indicators of effective teaching; (e) relatively unaffected by a variety of variabl...

This study explores the consequences of fostering empathy-for both victims and perpetrators-after large-scale violent events. Participants (N = 834) read a description of a school shooting and were randomly assigned to one of six conditions revealing varying amounts of background information about the victim and the perpetrator of violence. The impact of empathy on reactions toward the victim a...