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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

Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that …

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Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty: Facts or Ideology?

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2011

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...

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Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - CESifo - 2015

evidence on punishment preferences, in which subjects reveal a heterogeneous preference for punishing wrongdoers, our model … identifies circumstances in which “punitive” individuals (with stronger-than-average punishment preferences) will self …-select into law enforcement jobs that offer the opportunity to punish (or facilitate the punishment of) wrongdoers. Such “punitive …

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Punishment - and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several … feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …

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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement: Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels

Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2011

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...

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On the Process of Scientific Policy Advice - With Special Reference to Economic Policy

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014

We first show three major disagreements among today’s leading economists: the minimum wage, the effects of large government debt and the politics of the European Central Bank. Using a prominent and highly relevant example, the possible deterrent effect of death penalty, we demonstrate how...

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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino; Petraglia, Carmelo; Piacenza, Massimiliano - CESifo - 2013

Anti–money laundering regulations have been centred on the “Know-Your-Customer” rule so far, overlooking the fact that criminal proceedings that need to be laundered are usually represented by cash. This is the first study which tries to provide an answer to the question of how much of...

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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries: What do we (not) know?

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2012

For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - CESifo - 2013

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from...

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