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Unlocking Amenities : Estimating Public-Good Complementarity
Albouy, David - 2018
of public goods to minority households. Recent reductions in crime have "unlocked" $5 billion in property value in …
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Unlocking amenities : estimating public-good complementarity
Albouy, David; Christensen, Peter; Sarmiento-Barbieri, … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922676
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Amenities and crime : what is the association of amenities with crime in urban areas of Cuenca, Ecuador?
Loja, Paúl Sebastián; Heras, Wilmer Mateo; Mendoza, … - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 8, pp. 1-15
The study of crime and its associated factors is fundamental to improving the well-being of a society. In this context …, this study aimed to understand the influence of amenities on crime in the urban areas of Cuenca (Ecuador). To this purpose … set of spatial econometric models. The results show that amenities have an attractor effect on crime, thus reflecting that …
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Private provision of public goods that are complements for private goods : application to open source software developments
Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2012
This paper examines the questions of who participates in the provision of a public good through the voluntary participation of agents in the presence of strong complementarity between a public good and a private good. We show that the greater the initial endowment of the private good that agents...
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Dragon slaying with ambiguity : theory and experiments
Le Roux, Sara; Kelsey, David - 2015
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Dragon Slaying with Ambiguity : Theory and Experiments
Kelsey, David - 2015
This paper studies the impact of ambiguity in the best shot and weakest link models of public good provision. The models are first analysed theoretically. Then we conduct experiments to study how ambiguity affects behaviour in these games. We test whether subjects' perception of ambiguity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023798
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Private Provision of Public Goods that are Complements for Private Goods : Application to Open Source Software Developments
Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012
This paper examines the questions of who participates in the provision of a public good through the voluntary participation of agents in the presence of strong complementarity between a public good and a private good. We show that the greater the initial endowment of the private good that agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111397
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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …
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Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups
Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021 - This version: 22.06.2021
Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We...
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Poisedness and Propagation : Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City
Johnson, Victoria - 2015
The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel introductions or exogenous perturbations than others. Explaining this relative "poisedness" is essential to understanding...
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