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Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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When penalties for first-time offenders are restricted, it is typically optimal for the lawmaker to overdeter repeat offenders. First-time offenders are then deterred not only by the (restricted) fine for a first offense, but also by the prospect of a large fine for a subsequent offense. Now...
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strengthened deterrence and enhanced prosecution. Moreover, consistently with a novel prediction of our theory, the evidence …
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corporate fines may not be able to induce deterrence. Managerial penalties are thus needed. If the policy may be changed … bankruptcies or under-deterrence as compared to the optimal policy. …
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model that predicts decreasing penalty structures will yield greater deterrence than increasing penalty structures. We find … for any given decision, being in a decreasing fine structure has a significant effect on deterrence. …
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We review current methods for calculating fines against cartels in the US and EU, and simulate their deterrence effects … deterrence effects before leniency programs were introduced. Previous simulations of the effects of fines ignore the different … type of deterrence that leniency programs bring about, and, therefore, grossly overstate the minimum fine likely to have …
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deterrence) and guide the use to which innovation is put (marginal deterrence). We show that public intervention should become …
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In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time … the prison spell. This second result can be hardly reconciled with the specific deterrence hypothesis according to which a …
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distributed asymmetrically among firms. Asymmetry of the evidence can increase the cost of deterrence if the high-evidence firm …; this may increase the cost of deterrence. …
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Deterrence of illegal activities is frequently carried out by many atomistic auditors (tax auditors, law enforcement … positive question. It proposes a game-theoretic model of decentralized deterrence and an empirical test, based on the …
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