a jurisprudence and legal survey of claiming damages exceeding wergild (diyeh) in mandatory insurance law   mehdi gaemi [1] hormoz asadi kuh bad [2]   abstract the basis of possibility of claiming damages surplus to wergild under mandatory insurance law is one of the important topics investigated in the current article. it is neither purely permitted nor purely an issue of damage payment, but r...

This study uses a cross-country panel to examine the determinants of corruption, paying particular attention to political institutions that increase accountability. Even though the theoretical literature has stressed the importance of political institutions in determining corruption, the empirical literature is relatively scarce. Our results confirm the role of political institutions in determi...