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to the ability to pay and cost of abduction matter. The effect of policies aimed at deterring the crime have mixed …
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Empirical evidence of the marginal deterrent effect is provided. Exploring a data set of kidnapping crimes in Sardinia between 1960 and 2012 changes in Italian policy regarding sanctions for kidnapping and their associated impact on murders is considered. Deaths associated with kidnappings...
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la Becker (Crime and Punishment - An Economic Approach, 1968) and Enrlich (Participation in Illegitimate Activities - A … greater amount of crime than non-tourist ones in the short and long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à … empirically test whether total crime in Italy is affected by the presence of tourists. Findings confirm the initial intuition of a …
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In the last decades, the interest in the relationship between crime and business cycle has widely increased. It is a … one hand we verify if such a relationship does exist; on the other hand we select what crime types are related to the … business cycle and if they are leading, coincident or lagging. The study finds that most of the crime types show a counter …
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This paper employs provincial data to study the relationship between several crime typologies, namely murder, theft …
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highlights the extent to which crime is detrimental for the economic activity. The case study is Italy for the time span 1970 up … is that all crime typologies, but homicides and fraud, have a crowding-out effect on legal economic activity, reducing …
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of economic variables on crime has been widely investigated, there is not much concern about crime also affecting the … of crime fluctuations in the long period by an impulse response analysis. …
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In the last decades, the interest in the relationship between crime and business cy- cle has widely increased. It is a … detect some comovements between the business cycle and the cyclical component of some typologies of crime, which could … evidence some relationships between these variables; a second purpose is to select which crime types are related to the …
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This paper analyses the linkage between tourism and crime with particular focus on the distortions generated onto …. Possible spill-over effects of crime are taken into account by testing two spatial models (one spatial lag model and one ….e. urban, mountain, marine etc- alters the impact of tourism on crime. Finally, we measure the social cost of crime associated …
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