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Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten
Spengler, Hannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
the German states for the period 1977-2001. Building on this database a comprehensive system of criminal prosecution … levels of the criminal prosecution process. Finally, the econometric estimates are used in order to assess cost reductions … for crime victims from increases in the severity of criminal prosecution. Thus, intensifying criminal prosecution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963980
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Technology Adoption in Critical Mass Games: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Keser, Claudia; Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We analyze the choices between two technologies A and B that both exhibit network effects. We introduce a critical mass game in which coordination on either one of the standards constitutes a Nash equilibrium outcome while coordination on standard B is assumed to be payoff-dominant. We present a...
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Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's expectation about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have asked participants to state their beliefs explicitly, but little is known about the causal relation...
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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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"Robin Hook": The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy
Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322384
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The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Transnational Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results
Schneider, Friedrich; Caruso, Raul - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The financial means of international terror and transnational organized crime organizations are analyzed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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"Robin Hook": The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy
Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322582
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Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism: A Survey
Haigner, Stefan; Schneider, Friedrich; Wakolbinger, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Policy programs on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) have largely called for preventive measures like keeping record of financial transactions and reporting suspicious ones. In this survey study, we analyze the extent of global money laundering and...
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Gov-arrrgh-nance: Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
Groot, Olaf J. de; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper, we argue that the effect of governance on the emergence of crimes of different levels of sophistication is highly non-linear. State failure, anarchy and a lack of infrastructure are not conducive to establishing any business, including illicit enterprises. At the bottom of the...
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