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Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player?

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves; Lee, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime …

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Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery

Galiani, Sebastian; Rossi, Martín A.; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal activities. We exploit the random assignment of young men to military service in Argentina through a draft lottery to identify this causal effect. Using a unique set of administrative...

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”Thou shalt not covet ...”: Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply the model to crime and study the conditions under which agents would … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external …

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Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...

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Geographical Distribution of Crime in Italian Provinces: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

Uberti, Teodora Erika; Cracolici, Maria Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its “neighbouring” effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational … have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or …

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The Cost of Segregation in Social Networks

Allouch, Nizar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...

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Political Cycles : The Opposition Advantage

Gautier, Pascal; Soubeyran, Raphael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

We propose a two dimensional infinite horizon model of public consumption in which investments are decided by a winner-take-all election. Investments in the two public goods create a linkage across periods and parties have different specialities. We show that the incumbent party vote share...

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Private Options to Use Public Goods Exploiting Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits

Snyder, Lori D.; Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...

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On the Private Provision of Public Goods on Networks

Allouch, Nizar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper analyzes the private provision of public goods where consumers interact within a fixed network structure and may benefit only from their direct neighbors’ provisions. We present a proof for existence and uniqueness of a Nash equilibrium with general best-reply functions. Our...

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On the Legitimacy of Coercion for the Financing of Public Goods

Bierbrauer, Felix - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...

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