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Hooliganism in the Shadow of the 9/11 Terrorist Attack and the Tsunami: Do Police Reduce Group Violence?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2006
This paper isolates the causal effect of policing on group violence, using unique panel data on self-reported crime by soccer and ice hockey hooligans. The problem of reverse causality from violence to policing is solved by two drastic reallocations of the Stockholm Supporter Police unit to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196282
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Do Surveillance Cameras Affect Unruly Behavior? A Close Look at Grandstands
Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2008
approximately 65 percent lower in stadiums with cameras compared to stadiums without. The natural experiment provides a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405713
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The Effect of Surveillance Cameras on Crime: Evidence from the Stockholm Subway
Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the effect of surveillance cameras on crime in the Stockholm subway. Beginning in 2006, surveillance cameras were installed in the subway stations at different points in time. Difference-in-difference analysis reveals that the introduction of the cameras reduced crime by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572581
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Sabotage in Contests: An Overview
Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2013
This paper reviews the relatively small literature on sabotage in contests. It looks at both the formal game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877650
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?
Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181512
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Sabotaging Potential Rivals
Amegashie, J. Atsu; Runkel, Marco - CESifo - 2005
This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an … elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of … players there is a pure-strategy equilibrium in which only the most able contestant engages in sabotage while less able …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406332
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Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
Gaechter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - CESifo - 2015
an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277184
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Promotion Rat Race and Public Policy
Bjertnaes, Geir - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540727
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American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?
Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2007
, Sanjaya Malakar, who was clearly a low-ability contestant, won the competition. He was concerned that the show was becoming a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406199