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Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the implications of potential offenders caring about their relative status. We establish that subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a...

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Payment Evasion

Buehler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel; Lechner, Michael - CESifo - 2015

This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...

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Black Sheep or Scapegoats? Implementable Monitoring Policies under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior

Buechel, Berno; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2014

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...

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Deterrence through Word of Mouth

Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009

The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study … allowing us to distinguish between households who have been subject to enforcement and those who have not. Exploiting local … variation in field inspectors’ efforts induced by snowfall, we find a striking response of households to increased enforcement …

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Preponderance of Evidence

Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - CESifo - 2002

This paper analyzes the incentive properties of the standard and burden of proof for a finding of negligence, when evidence is imperfect and rests with the parties. We show that the “preponderance of evidence' standard provides maximal incentives to exert care. This holds even though litigants...

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Rules of Proof, Courts, and Incentives

Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - CESifo - 2007

We analyze the design of legal principles and procedures for court decision-making in civil litigation. The objective is the provision of appropriate incentives for potential tort-feasors to exert care, when evidence about care is imperfect and may be distorted by the parties. Efficiency is...

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Tax Morale after the Reunification of Germany: Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2007

government to increase deterrence, indicates that tax morale is more strongly driven by other factors than deterrence. …

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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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Facts or Ideology: What Determines the Results of Econometric Estimates of the Deterrence Effect of Death Penalty? A Meta-Analysis

Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2013

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than …

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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - CESifo - 2009

We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in...

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