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Whistle-Blower Policy

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This chapter describes the increasingly important phenomenon of whistle-blowing and identifies the elements of optimal policy responses.

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Kapur, S., Heyes, A. (2019). Whistle-Blower Policy. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_64

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