provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …

positive effect on homicide rates: ceteris paribus, more guns do not mean more crime. …The positive correlation between gun prevalence and homicide rates has been widely documented. But does this … correlation reflect a causal relationship? This study seeks to answer the question of whether more guns cause more crime, and …

recommit a crime by 1.24 percent: this corroborates the general deterrence hypothesis. However, this effect depends on the time …In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective … punishment to former inmates recommitting a crime can be considered as good as randomly assigned. Based on a unique data set on …

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. …

-losses: deterrence variables akin to the traditional conditional probabilities from the economics of crime literature. We find the …We estimate the deterrence effects of U.S. merger policy instruments with respect to the composition and frequency of … conditional probability of eliciting an antitrust challenge (i.e., remedies and prohibitions) involves the strongest deterrence …

: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments. Leniency further increases deterrence, but stabilizes surviving cartels …, deterrence is unaffected but prices grow. Differences between treatments in Stockholm and Rome suggest culture may affect optimal …

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 …

deterrence) and guide the use to which innovation is put (marginal deterrence). We show that public intervention should become …