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Efficiency and Equity Effects of Taxing the Financial Sector: Lessons from a CGE Model for Belgium

Chisari, Omar; Estache, Antonio; Nicodème, Gaëtan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper assesses the effects of applying VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a CGE Model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectoral and redistributional effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the...

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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …

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Ethnicity and Spatial Externalities in Crime

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a model where the decision to commit a crime in a neighboring area is a positive function of the percentage … of same-race individuals residing in that area since they can provide crucial information on crime possibilities. The … model then predicts a positive spatial correlation in crime between different contiguous areas; this correlation is higher …

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Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link With Crime

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find …

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Insecurity and Welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel; Minten, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using original survey data, we examine how insecurity affects welfare. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality. Results are robust to the inclusion of various shocks...

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Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime

Raphael, Steven; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

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Strong and Weak Ties in Employment and Crime

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper analyses the interplay between social structure and information exchange in two competing activities, crime … as dyads. There are multiple equilibria. If jobs are badly paid and/or crime is profitable, unemployment benefits have to … be low enough to prevent workers for staying too long in the unemployment status because they are vulnerable to crime …

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Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

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Does Regulation of Built-In Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ours, Jan C van; Vollaard, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social …

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